Met up with Ella to hang out in London!! :)
We had tea and toast for breakfast (how Pommy!) and then checked out Russell Square which was basically a big square garden. Then we headed up to Convent Garden for some shopping and walked down the Strand before going to the Tower of London. Our tour guide there was a Yeoman (Beefeater - I should have asked where that name came from) and he told us lots of super gory stories about executions and whatnot that happened there. That was super cool.
We saw the guards change too, and I almost got run over by them because they just march towards you and yell at you to get out of the way! Whoops. There are a bunch of ravens at the ToL and basically there is a superstition that if the ravens left the Tower then the white tower (where the king lived) would crumble and the monarchy would fall (how lord of the rings-esque), so the king at the time (I think it was Charles II) made a decree saying that there had to be at least 6 ravens at all times at the Tower, so now there are. There was also a tour on a conveyor belt thingy of the crown jewels, and that was SO much bling in one room. Seriously I think the royal family all suffer from spinal injuries from toting those things around on their heads.
That evening we did a Jack the Ripper tour and got a cruise up the Thames. The Thames is the most disgusting river I have ever seen in my life, and after the stories of the e
xecutions that took place and how the decapitated heads would just fall into the river and people would dump their poo into it and whatnot, it was pretty rank to cruise up. Nice views though. We saw the square (on Tower Hill) where people used to get executed and Sir Thomas More was amongst them! We also saw the old walls that divided the Roman city of Londonium from the outside, and then we went to Whitechapel and did all the JtR stuff. The walk was good, and we also saw where William Wallace got executed. Basically it was a pretty gory day, and then it was home to bed.
We had tea and toast for breakfast (how Pommy!) and then checked out Russell Square which was basically a big square garden. Then we headed up to Convent Garden for some shopping and walked down the Strand before going to the Tower of London. Our tour guide there was a Yeoman (Beefeater - I should have asked where that name came from) and he told us lots of super gory stories about executions and whatnot that happened there. That was super cool.
We saw the guards change too, and I almost got run over by them because they just march towards you and yell at you to get out of the way! Whoops. There are a bunch of ravens at the ToL and basically there is a superstition that if the ravens left the Tower then the white tower (where the king lived) would crumble and the monarchy would fall (how lord of the rings-esque), so the king at the time (I think it was Charles II) made a decree saying that there had to be at least 6 ravens at all times at the Tower, so now there are. There was also a tour on a conveyor belt thingy of the crown jewels, and that was SO much bling in one room. Seriously I think the royal family all suffer from spinal injuries from toting those things around on their heads.That evening we did a Jack the Ripper tour and got a cruise up the Thames. The Thames is the most disgusting river I have ever seen in my life, and after the stories of the e
xecutions that took place and how the decapitated heads would just fall into the river and people would dump their poo into it and whatnot, it was pretty rank to cruise up. Nice views though. We saw the square (on Tower Hill) where people used to get executed and Sir Thomas More was amongst them! We also saw the old walls that divided the Roman city of Londonium from the outside, and then we went to Whitechapel and did all the JtR stuff. The walk was good, and we also saw where William Wallace got executed. Basically it was a pretty gory day, and then it was home to bed.
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