(Tower Bridge) (St. James's Park)
We spent the 28th of March in London for a quick day of sight-seeing with Kristen and Jed. It was quite cold and sometimes a little rainy, but definitely neat to visit. After our arrival at Dover (where we did see white cliffs), our bus continued on to London. We started off with a 2+ hour tour led by the funniest English gentleman I've ever met. The entire time he would sneak in quick, sarcastic comments and was even busting on the royal family a bit. Also, we stayed on the bus the whole time! <- I loved that.
(Crossing Abbey Road)
We took a couple quick stops at Abbey Road and to take pictures at Platform 9 3/4's. Jed and I were the only ones that raised our hands and said "yes!!" excitedly when the tour guide asked if we wanted to stop there.
After our tour we walked through St. James's Park to check out Buckingham Palace, visited the Tower of London, grabbed fish and chips (Dad informed me that they weren't authentic because they didn't come wrapped in a napkin), checked out the Magna Carta at the London library and took goofy pictures inside a British telephone booth.
The Tower of London was very cool, place of bunches of executions and imprisonment. I especially loved visiting the Library, as they actually had letters written by Elizabeth I. She spoke many languages fluently and is one of my heroes.
There wasn't much time to do anything else and St. Paul's had closed by the time we were able to make it over there. It was a good trip, but I think Paris is a better place to visit. They do speak English in England, but it's so cold and much less pretty (than Paris).
We did have a tough time finding changing tables, but I'm learning that that's a problem all over Europe. Rome should be fun!
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