St. Pauls and Fleet Street # 3

I'm not sure what it is about doing walks backwards that is appealing, but it seems to happen a lot! Rather than starting at the cathedral and walking towards Paternoster Square we headed towards Queen Victoria street. This walk was rather short, but very sweet! It was felt very windy as we seemed to turn in U's quite often.

We stopped and took a look at St. Bride's printing library. According to our handy dandy London walks book it  has an old wooden hand printing press that was often used from the 1400s to the 1800s. Right beyond the printing press we saw the St. Bride's church which is also known as the printing church.

We kept walking on and came upon the house Dr. Johnson who wrote the first dictionary. That was news to me and quite fun to see. Although I have to say the flower wall right past his house was a much more appealing site to see on our walk!!

There were some other interesting sites such as the old courthouse and the sun clock at Paternoster Square. That was actually pretty cool!! We ended the walk by stopping to grab a deliciously fruity drink at Starbucks and basked in the warm sun while we waited for our St. Pauls tour.