After Baker Street, we took the underground back the way we came to get off at Green Park. I had purchased tickets for a hop on hop off open topped bus tour for the 3 days that we were supposed to be there. Of course, the value of the first of those three days was wasted since we weren't actually in London, and screw you Qantas for that one. (Considering how much Qantas screwed up on this trip, no, I'm not going to let that one go easily.) One of the stops of the tour was opposite Green Park Station.

Just behind that is a hotel name which is a byword for luxury around the world; The Ritz. I hadn't actually expected to see it there, but when I saw the sign, well clearly I had to take a photo of it even if the people in the foreground don't look over enthusiastic about being there. I rather suspect that they, like I, would be hard pressed to afford the room rates which start at a bit over AU$1000 per night. Still, having looked at the website... if I ever have the money to indulge myself I may very well do that. (Even if, truth be told, I probably still prefer a nice suite at the Hyatt Canberra instead.)

The other thing is that while Google Maps is a relatively valuable tool for finding your way around it has one feature that irritates the living **** out of me. And that is the amount of difficulty there is in getting it to show street names. You can zoom in to 7 billion percent and you're still just going to see a white bar representing a road with no name on it. The name of the road that I have just found out that the Ritz is on?

Piccadilly.

For some reason, I had always assumed thought of Piccadilly as a place rather than a road. Although it's on the London Monopoly board, so is Trafalgar Square so I suppose that I was thinking of Piccadilly in terms of Piccadilly Circus. But no, it is an actual road. And I was standing on it at the time. Travel really does broaden the mind as well as the geographical knowledge.