A 10AM start to our touristic activities this morning. We took a bus, and then several underground trains to the Tower Hill station. At 11:30 we started the "Old Jewish Quarter" London walk. About 25 people plus the guide, an energetic somewhat older woman. The neighborhoods were part of the City and part of the East End. Many plaques on walls signifying old events, crowded streets, a very new building nicknamed "The Gherkin", some time spent in an old synagogue. The walk ended at the Liverpool Street train station where we saw a statue commemorating the events of the Kindertransport, in which a number of Jewish children were brought from Germany, out of harms way to Great Britain in August, 1939. Peter Gutkind was one of these children, at age 13. 

After the 2 hour walk we went to a local pub. Mary Jo had fish and chips, Alice had a hamburger and chips, and I had some soup. Exhausted, we came back home.

Later I went for a short walk on Hampstead Heath.

Kindertransport Memorial

Kindertransport Memorial

Bench on Hampstead Heath with a (hard to read) memorial plaque. The plaque says:

For Ben Weinreb whilst he can sit on it (1912 - ??)

Now in years bestride my eighties, This Elysian seat I have vacated,

But gentle neighbor sigh not yet, I've only moved to Somerset. (died 1999)

Alice and Mary Jo at an old Roman and medieval wall near the tower of London