Day 4: BBC Studio Tour, Borough Market and the Thames River

For the last day in London for the first part of the Kua family trip it was off to BBC studios for a tour of the BBC Television Centre at White City. Although the presence of BBC in the area will probably be no more by the end of next year for the moment at least it was easily accessible to us. The television studios were one of the first buildings designed specifically for making and transmitting television programmes.

The tour of the studios took us behind the public veil and into a couple of the working studios. As with all studio visits there is also an interactive element where members of the audience get to pretend to be on TV – either as news casters like Dad, or participants in a quiz programme, or working the behind the scenes in the sound booth.

After the tour we headed over to Westfield to grab some lunch – we ended up at GBK which surprised my family with how big their burgers are. Heh heh.

Fully stuffed we made our way over to the other side of town to take a walk from London Bridge to through the Borough Market and along the River Thames to see both London Bridge and Tower Bridge.

I was hoping that we would be around to see the Tower Bridge opening up but we were too early for that and as we had a dinner date with Pat’s roommate at the Bleeding Heart Tavern we couldn’t really hang around too long!