A visit to the Houses of Parliament

 Today Val and I were in London to meet our local Member of Parliament (Ben Goldsborough). Neither of us had been before and so we really didn't know what to expect. 

We had been given instruction from Ben's personal secretary Cathy on what to do, where to go and what time to be there. We were instructed to go to Portcullis House on Victoria Embankment where we went through security. This was similar to any national airport. Once we had passed through we rang Cathy and she came down to meet us and take us through the corridors of power. At that point Ben wasn't around as he was travelling in from Norfolk. Despite that, Cathy proved to be a worthy guide and font of information. We were ushered through chamber after chamber where unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures.

After sometime Ben arrived and we established that he is a parliamentary history nerd 😁

We did manage to take a few pictures at the end.