More of London
Or lets make fun of the Americans...
Well this weekend my cousin, Luuk, was visiting from Holland. I thought I would take advantage of this by visiting some of the places that I have not had the chance to see yet!
So for today we were heading up to London to do some of the tourist things. But of course first we had to deal with the late trains and buses delaying our arrival in London about half hour. First stop was Trafalgar Square for a walk along the Mall to Buckingham Palace for the changing of the guard.
To say that absolutely every tourist in London was out front of Buckingham Palace would be a bit of an understatement. We arrived about half hour before it was due to begin and could not see a bloody thing. We stayed around for most of it, but around 12:15 we decided to head off. We could not see what was happening in the grounds themselves, so there was not much point in sticking about. One thing I did notice though was that the Queen was in residence. I am sure she had a better view then we did.
We then headed over to the British Museum. While we could have spent the next three days inside having a look, I just wanted to show Luuk the Mummies (which are pretty cool). So after a 10 minute stop we headed over to Tottenham Court Road for lunch.
We then jumped back on the Tube to head over to The Tower of London. For me this was the highlight of the day. We joined a tour by a Yeoman Warder (one of the Beefeaters) who, when not trying to convince us to buy a bottle of Beefeater Gin was paying out the American Tourist for their stupidity (and threatening to feed them to the crows). Anyway, we got to see the Tower, the Crown Jewels and all the places where people were gaoled and killed.
We then walked across Tower Bridge, jumped on another tube and headed towards the London Eye. It was just starting to rain when we walked onto our capsule, but it was still a good view!
That was about it for the day, we jumped on the train, headed back to Southampton and went to Chiquito's for dinner!
Down the Mall to the Palace
Some Important Guests Leaving??
The Soldiers Arriving!
Some of the People watching.
More Soldiers.
The Building the Crown Jewels are In
The Old and New...
Where the Guards Lived.
Henery VIII's Armour (they did not have sports cars to compensate in those days).
Where the private scaffold stood (there was a public one outside the doors).
The White Tower
Tower Bridge
Parliament from the London Eye
1 comment:
Three days in the British Museum is a sad example in these MTV days of reduced attention spans! ;-)
If one has a two hour session in the morning before lunch, and a three hour session in the afternoon, then the British Museum is really going to take one five or six days to see properly, learning things along the way.
The Science Museum is longer: given that it is also the Natural History Museum, you can expect that to take 8 days or more.
10 minutes! Sheesh!
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