Hi Everyone!!! Hope you all had a great Easter weekend! I'm still recovering from mine!! My mom came to visit and we pretty much covered the entire city!! However, there's sooo much to see here I still have plenty left on my "to do" list. My mom arrived on Tuesday and thanks to work she sawthe Florance Nightengale museum on Wednesday on her own! We started our adventures together on Thursday night by having dinner at a random curry restaurant along Brick Ln. Brick Ln (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane) is the center of London's Bengali district and is home to tons of curry houses.
Friday morning we got up and and made our way over to Buckingham Palace. I was hoping to catch the changing of the guards but all we got to see we some "guards" go by on horseback...
The Victoria Monument outside Buckingham PalaceAfter that we walked along the mall through St. James park and up to Piccadilly Circus to pick up our London Pass (it got us into a number of attractions at a discount price).
From there we hopped on the tube and went over to the Tower of London. The tower was built by William the Conqueror in 1066 and is best known as the sight where two of King Henry VIII's wives (Anne Boleyn 7 Catherine Howard) were beheaded. We posed for a picture with one of the Yeoman Guards (aka a Beefeater) took the audio tour and finished by taking a look at the crown jewels!!!
View of the Tower of London from across the Thames
After the Tower, we jumped on a boat cruise, and just in the knick of time because about 5 minutes after boarding it started HAILING!! By the time we got to our destination though it had stopped - what luck! The weather in this city is seriously crazy!
Minutes after the hail storm...Anyway, we got off the boat and made our first attempt to see Westminster Abbey. The Abbey was closed so we walked across Westminster Bridge over to the London Eye. We hit the eye just in time to see the city at dusk - it was pretty cool. London is probably one of the largest cities I've EVER seen!!
The palace of Westminster -home to both houses of Parliment & Big Ben!
Beneath the London Eye
From the London Eye we went up to Covent Garden for dinner at Porters (http://www.porters.uk.com/default.asp) for some traditional English meat pies! Delish!!
3 comments:
I can't believe we did all that. It's good to get back to work for a rest and some Illinois sun.
Some of the shots are awesome!
babcia and dziadzi
i just saw these lovely comment links!! hehe...
oh, Audra! these pictures are so wonderful... and, you and your mom are adorable (as usual). i am sure it was such an amazing experience for both of you. Cheers!
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