We flew from Munich to Stansted airport and than took the train into the city. This is Shanan at Liverpool Street Station.
We checked into our hotel and than went to a local pub for our first english breakfast.
Our main mode of transportation was the underground tube.
Our first stop was Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
Double decker and Big Ben
Our favorite tour guide is Rick Steves
Westminster Abbey. This church was first founded 616 on the present site. This is the site of the coronation of the English and British monarchs. The Abbey is full of tombs of previous monarchs and notable people. Some of the tombs we saw were Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Wilber Wilberforce, Charles Dickens, and George Hendrick Handel.
The back side of the Westminster.
Shanan and a double decker bus.
Big Ben at night.
Out in front of 10 Downing Street.
We went to the British museum. It had a huge collection of world civilization artifacts. It was incredible to see all of the history in one building.
This is the Rosetta stone created in 196 BC and discovered by the French in Egypt in 1799. It was instrumental in decoding the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.
Bust of Rameses II at the British Museum.
These sculptors were taken from the Parthenon in Athens.
Aztec skull.
This is from the great State of Washington all the way in London!
This is the Hoa Hakananai'a from the Easter Island's.
We had our first Starbucks since we left the States.
Big Ben at dusk.
The London Eye.
Our hotel was right next to St Paul's Cathedral. This is where Princess Diana was married.
Shanan pretending to be Princess Diana.
St. Paul's Bells
View of St. Paul's from across the Thames River.
Shanan in front of London Tower.
Font of London Tower.
"Beefeater" at the Tower of London.
Tower Bridge seen from the Tower of London.
Tower Bridge.
We rode the London Eye. That is Big Ben and the Parliament in the background.
Shanan in front of Buckingham Palace.
Buckingham Palace.
Palace Horsemen.
Lion at Trafalger Square.
Yes it does!!!!
London specialty desert.
Yum!!!!!
