London Tour Part 2

Walked past the Tower of London, but again, they wanted an arm, a leg, or a head, for entry. Though, this green area around the tower used to be a moat! And on the left is Tower Bridge as we walked across it. Lower left is another view of the Thames festival from across the river.

    

    

We were dropped off for lunch at Covet Gardens(above right). It was a great array of shops, food, people and street performers. After a delicious sandwich and tomato soup we walked down to Trafalgar square.

      

There were no pictures allowed but we did also wander through the free galleries at the Tate Modern. Which were very cool, if not a little too modern for my enjoyment.

      

London Bridge opening. More street performers and a beautiful covered plaza at the Thames festival, and Millenium bridge (aka: the one in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

And, speaking of Harry Potter, I of course had to make it down to Platform 9 3/4. Finding it was tough though. We followed the book's directions, but to start with there is no pedestrian area between platforms 9 and 10. Secondly, there is a lot of construction currently going on those platforms. So, I finally found someone to point me in the right direction, ignoring Brian & Jess telling me to give up. But, sadly, it's located off of platform 8.

    

Then there's also the super steep escalators of the tube stations. And a beautiful gate: I don't know what it is about Europe but they have unicorns everywhere.

    

So London was great! ALL of the pictures I took while there can be found on Facebook, or through this link if you don't have a facebook: http://bit.ly/daDfWh
*photo of my taken by Jess