London, England September 27-28, 2016

London, England
September 27-28, 2016

London Town

Even though London is a very big city it only feels big when you are stuck in traffic when you are late for a play. When you walk into a pub to get some lunch you are treated as if you are neighbors around the corner in a small town. London always feels like home.

View from our Hotel room at Marriott County Hall

Front of our hotel

Twinings-The Queens Tea

Selfie along the river

From our hotel balcony, looking at Westminster and the London Eye

London Town

Big Ben

Guards

Westminster Abbey

Looking across the river at our hotel

Guards

An old church

Marble Arch

London by night

We took a tour of London on the Big B bus system. You can hop on and off at all the major sites. We stopped at St. Paul’s Cathedral and got our exercise by climbing to the top.

On the bus

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Hiking to the top

Keep going

From near the top, looking down through glass to the main floor

View from near the top

Barb halfway up

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Next stop-The Tower of London.

Even though we have been to London many times it was fun to take the guided tour at the Tower of London provided free of charge by a Beefeater Guard who is a resident of the Tower grounds. He was able to mix history lessons with humor. It is not easy to mix in humor with the tales of all the queens, nobleman and peasants that were beheaded at the Tower over the centuries. We walked through the Crown Jewels.

Tower of London

Tower Bridge

Crown Jewels

Tower Bridge

The London Eye

When stopping in London, it’s nice to catch a play. Barb wanted to see the show “Beautiful” about the life of Carole King and all of the music she wrote and performed. It was quite good. For the evening show we went to see Aladdin.

The play about Carole King

Barb loved it!

Day 2 we hopped on and off the Big B again. The changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace was going on, so we stopped to watch and see the beautiful horses.

Beautiful tall elegant horses

Bands played

Buckingham Palace

Barb at Buckingham Palace

Watching the horse parade

Through the Gates

Scott at the palace

Buckingham Fountain

Having fish and chips at a pub

Barb using the obsolete phone

River walk

Scott at the Tower of London

When there is a crown on the lamp post, the Queen owns the street

London

In the afternoon we had tea at Sketch. We were definitely the oldest people in there, but it is a cute place. After we walked along Regent Street and back to our hotel.