The London Metro is AWESOME! And where they don't take you, the double-decker buses will!
Kitchen area of the London flat. Quite adequate.
The square toilet is definitely British!
On Friday night, we passed the corner of Shaftsbury and Endell, very close to where we stayed.
We ate at 'Rock and Sole Plaice' for Fish and Chips. We shared a table with a nice young couple.
A rare 'Mary Poppins' sighting right outside the British Museum.
It was FREE to see the old stuff that the British STOLE during their military conquests.
We also visited the National Gallery, a world-famous art museum. Again, FREE.
Yep, we had Chinese one evening and it wasn't bad.
Saturday morning, our first full day in London, we walked to Trafalgar square to redeem our London Passe, which we really enjoyed.
This blue chicken on Trafalgar Square is very conspicuous, but everyone seemed to be pretending that they didn't notice it. Weird!
We quickly hopped on a double-decker bus down Whitehall St, but soon hopped off again because...
...we happened to be going passed the 'Horseguards' when they were changing guards.
We damn near got stampeded. Honestly, they don't wait for tourists to get out of the way.
June had to get this pic. No idea why.
Big Ben, the nickname for the great bell, Built in 1858, the clock face is 23 ft in diameter.
Westminster Abbey built around 1066 (Could use a good power-washing.) Unfortunately they don't allow pictures inside.
...except I took this one and got royally chastised for it by an elderly female employee.
St. James Park
Working our way toward Buckingham palace, like salmon going upstream.
Which building does not look like the others?
'Time for tea already? Well, I suppose you will be wanting me to pour out.' -Mary Poppins
Looking through the gates at Buckingham palace.
We toured the Royal Mews where they keep the royal cars, coaches, and horses. This gold leaf one weighs in at 8,000 lbs!
The Queen's Gallery is sort of like her closet I suppose. Stuff like this just goes ON and ON and ON.
Royal Albert Hall was closed for renovations, so I took this picture of the buildings right next to it.
World famous Harrods Dept. store...
...where you can get stuff like this...
...and, right next to it, these!
The theatre district from the back of a double-decker bus on our way home on Sat. night.
For Brett...
Leicester Square
British Pub food!
Sunday we took a train out to Windsor Castle
We both got a little sick of of the opulence of the British royalty after a couple hours.
Monday morning breakfast before a big day of walking the City of London.
Thames River cruise from Westminster bridge to Tower bridge.
They love their royalty. Even the lamps wear crowns!
St. Pauls Cathedral from the river. We walked up 350 stairs to the wispering hall, then to the observation deck shown here.
The Gherkin Egg from the river.
Tower bridge, the end of the line for us.
We toured Tower of London, built around 1000AD. This is where they keep the famous 'Crown Jewels'
And here they are!!! (Just kidding; these are wire baboons.)
Uhh, I don't think so. Good to have stuff, but NOT the Crown Jewels.
I hope THAT is not the Crown Jewels. More like protection for the family jewels.
I think this is something they stole from India. Certainly NOT the Crown Jewels
Nope! Well, we did eventually see the Crown Jewels (rooms full of royalty stuff like crowns, septres etc.).
This is how they raised 'Traitors Gate' from several pictures ago.
Infamous Bloody Tower were they tortured and killed a couple of kids who were supposed to inherit the throne
The castle moat and Tower Bridge
We stopped in the financial district for lunch around 2pm, after the lunch crowd.
Just in time for the serious drinking crowd.
The Bank of England
Ground ZERO! - The birthplace of the 'stock' market. Literally, livestock.
The river from St. Pauls observation platform.
It started to rain, so we took a cab to Charles Dickens house.
He didn't answer so we just walked in.
We thought about taking a bath, but it seemed a little small for the both of us.
Dickens desk where he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby (1837 to 1839).
Something he wrote..I can't make it out
