Wednesday, June 19, 2013

to the Bus - watch out London!

 The tour was COLD! We sat on the open top just behind the last covered seat as we could still take pictures and still be covered. We brought our own headphones to listen to the pre-recorded audio guide. Not bad. Can't remember any of it, but here's some really great pictures. :)

  

tallest building in London
 It was so impressive the amount of people walking and hurrying about. The architecture and everything was just amazing to us small town country kids. :)

 O Canada!
 Beatles of course.
 Waldorf Hotel


 The amount of buses everywhere was crazy! These aren't the tour buses either, this is public transportation. This was just in front of us, there were at least 5 more visible behind us.


 St. Pauls Cathedral was beautiful! The famous Whispering gallery was pretty cool - although slightly terrifying for me on the worn down path, WAY up high in the dome. The dome seen above is not the actual dome seen inside the church. Do some fact checking it's an incredible building. Construction was being done on the inside of the dome so we couldn't go any higher.....and no pictures inside. That this building even still exists is a miracle. 
source : The iconic St Paul's Survives taken on 29 December 1940 of St Paul's during The Blitz

 waiting to hop-on another tour bus after St Pauls Cathedral

Approaching Tower Bridge - not to be confused with London Bridge.



 Looking back to the Tower Bridge from the Tower of London
 More on these sites in the next post - this was just what we saw from the bus. I tried to find more picture of our sites in London, but a lot were not to be photographed and we spend a lot of time walking and taking the underground....one time went all the way out to the Imperial War museum that was closed until July - he told us we could come back then.....not so much. There was more stuff we should have planned to go see and because I had cost us dearly on the train tickets to get to London, we gave up visits to Bath, Stonehenge, other sites outside of London. I'm actually okay with that though - those sites were stressing me out before we even left for Europe. Although there was a plane museum I would have like to have gone too, but didn't know about until we arrived at the Imperial war museum and the guide said it would be an all-day trip. We only had a few hours the next day.

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