Gratuitous Cannon Shot

That's it for my London Trip. I highly recommend it especially the treacle sponge pudding and the fish and chips....mmmmm.....though you might have problems finding a good london pub in the midst of all the italian restaurants... Also, if you try not to think of the exchange rate and you'll feel much better...

Trip Highlights - The British Museum

The British Museum is a massive place - my feet get tired just thinking about it - and they have a sampling of histories of civilizations from all over the world. I have to say that the best bit of the British Museum was actually on temporary loan (and will be till April 2008). The TerraCotta Warriors! (sorry no pics - not allowed..) They were very cool - I particularly liked the horses :) It was a very complete exhibit and the scale of the complex is massive - apparently the guy that commissioned it was a teenager when he started it - granted a rather powerful teenager - and he had 700,000 people working on it for years! After seeing all the work of course I was impressed, however, the most impressive thing to me after seeing the entire exhibit was the fact that all the warriors that now stand at the palace - for lack of a better word - were destroyed by looters hundreds of years ago. The place was completed and filled hundreds of clay people fashioned and painted, then the place was looted, sacked and then to add insult to injury the roof collapsed and the entire place filled wth dirt to be forgotten for many many years. It must have been quite a job to put them back together again - in fact there are vast areas of the complex that have never been excavated!

London by Night

No trip to London would be complete without the prerequisite 50 photos of the Parliment Buildings and Big Ben bell tower and a trip on the London Eye - to get more snaps.


Apparently you can see for miles on a clear night - personally I think that's a myth, I don't think they have clear nights in London.

Back to London....

Travelling in style as usual...

Windsor Castle

Windsor isn't too far from downtown london - only about 1 hour by train from Waterloo Station. Once you get there you have a short little walk to see this amazing castle.




I'd have to say the highlights include the miniature house - think CSI only with working indoor plumbing - and the state apartments - think ROYAL and GRAND and GOLD - and of course the audio guide is very informative.




Of course no castle would be complete without the guards. During our stay in London we saw all sorts of guards. The Tower of London Yeoman, the Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace Guards and of course the Horse Guards - my personal favourite.

Train Trip!

Ah...travelling by train.
Europeans are so sensible. Just look at these spacious seats!

The Prime Meridian

Look at me! I'm on the Prime Meridan!
Kind of anticlimatic isn't it...but hey it's still cool.

Moving On...

From the Tower of London we see Tower Bridge. Very original naming I must say.
Apparently people have this problem telling London Bridge and Tower Bridge apart. I'm not sure why they have this problem, Tower Bridge is next to the Tower of London, its big and blue and kind of gaudy and London Bridge has it's name written right on it! See...(you might have to squint, but trust me - it's there)

The Tower of London

Welcome to the Tower of London. I must say the absolute best thing about the Tower of London is the Crown Jewels. They're big and sparkly and if you go early enough in the day you'll have them all to yourself! A close second is the Beefeaters or Tower Yeomans. They tell really good stories about EX-E-CUTIONS! MUHAHAHA! and the ancient history of nursery rhymes and the like. Who'd have known that history could be so interesting?

Welcome to Sunny England

Hello All!

Time for another adventure. This time my travels bring me to London. Here I am at the top of St Pauls Cathedral. It was one brutal climb, but not a bad view eh?