25 Climbing The Monument

Well you can't spend the last bank holiday of the year doing nothing can you? Ok, normally I could quite happily but I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to crack on and get something ticked off my list.

I've been in London for 22 years (yes, it really has been that long since I came down here to University as a wide eyed teenager) now and I've been past the Monument so many times and yet never been to the top of it. Today was the day to rectify that.

Having seen the weather forecast I thought it would be best to do it in the morning as it was meant to rain in the afternoon, so following roping in my friend Laurie to climb it with me we met up late morning, just as the heavens opened in typical British fashion.

It's a lot of steps up to the top but we did it with only one stop to take a photo (well that's my reason and I'm sticking to it) and the views were certainly worth it.

Amazingly there weren't many people up there with us. They must have seen the weather beforehand. The only shame was that we couldn't climb all the way to the urn at the very top but I'd seen enough of stairs by then.