Our Amazing Journey to the Centenary Maze:
57th Bath Guides, 40th Bath Guides
Not wanting to miss out on any aspect of the Centenary Year, 12 Guides, 2 Young Leaders and 3 Leaders from St Saviours and Bathampton Guides decided to go to London to see the Girlguiding Centenary Maze in Crystal Palace. One fine Saturday in March, we left Bath Railway Station at 7.30am for a day trip that would involve 4 train and 5 tube journeys – all of which ran on time!
Our first destination was Crystal Palace Park, where we walked past some of the life size dinosaur models made by the Victorians, before enjoying a welcome hot chocolate drink in the cafe. Next stop was the Maze, with the race on to who would get to the centre first. On route there was an opportunity to collect rubbings of Guiding features from the stone obelisks. Once we were all in the centre, lots of photos taken before everyone was presented with a souvenir badge and a booklet.
We travelled back to Waterloo and a short walk took us to the London Eye, which the Guides had selected as the top place to visit in London. We were fortunate with the weather and had fine views in all directions, including seeing the Crystal Palace Transmitter and Buckingham Palace which was our next destination. From the Palace we went to Girlguiding HQ to do some shopping and then the Natural History Museum Darwin Centre to round off our sightseeing tour.
Our final stop was ASK near Paddington. The waitress really questioned whether we could have pudding and still catch our train home, but the staff and girls rose to challenge and ice creams and chocolate puddings were prepared and eaten in record time!
On the train home there was just time to ask the Guides what they thought of the day, "Good Fun", "Exciting, especially the Maze and London Eye", "Too much walking", "Brilliantv, "Not enough shopping" were some of the responses as we journeyed back to Bath.
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