Europe - Day 3 - London

Today was a full blown Tourist Day. We asked the conceirge to point us toward the Westminster Abbey and didn't come back until after dark that evening.

So far Parliment is #1 on my list of They Don't Build 'Em Like They Used To.

Right across the street is Westminster Abbey, which was closed for services, an unfortunate part about sightseeing on Sunday. Not that the outside wasn't impressive enough:

I always wondered what Truth and Justice looked like. No American Way, though:

Did you know how many people are actually buried at Westminster? Along with royalty such as Edward I ('Longshanks'), Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, there are also poets like Charles Dickens, Lord Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling.

And then right around the corner there's Big Ben!

A walk along the river (The Thames) produced some interesting sights, including The London Eye:

This guy (I have no idea):

And a place where the London teenagers hang out:

We stopped at Shakespeare's Globe Theater, but we couldn't go in because there was a show on, so instead we took a tour of the Rose Theater (the one in Shakespear in Love) instead.

The best part was our guide, which can make or break any tour. I wish I could tape the accent and the jokes and upload it. We pay only for funny.

We were pretty tired of walking around by this time, so we bought tickets to a Hop-On Hop-Off tour, and spent the rest of the afternoon seeing London by bus.

The last two places I'd like to go back to, instead of frantically taking pictures as we whizzed on by, are the London Bridge:

And the Tower Of London, where they imprisoned people like Anne Boleyn before she was beheaded. (The gore always makes it more interesting.)

There was fish and chips for dinner, and the day was complete. Whew.