First English breakfast complete some beans! A tour guide came along with us on our bus and we drove around looking at the city and then got out and walked around.
It’s pretty cool – they are doing a bunch of construction, but they keep the fronts of the old buildings up. Also fun fact, when London hosted the olympics, for every gold medal they won they painted a public post box gold. Another fun fact, the streets are filled with the red double decker buses that we consider a staple of London, but the locals think they’re terrible because there’s too many and very few people are on them at any given time so they just cause traffic.
We walked by Westminster Abbey and a bunch of small castles like for people like the prime minister and the Duke of Wellington, but Big Ben is undergoing construction so all we could see of that was scaffolding. It’s really cool to see and hear all the stories from WWII, especially the smaller stories that you don’t learn a lot about in school but the locals all know about.
Then, we went and saw the changing of the guard in front of Buckingham Palace. Next, we went to the Tower of London (where we had lunch and experienced our first “crisps”); our tour guide showed us around a little bit and it seems that a lot of murders occurred in there. We saw the Crown Jewels which were very fancy, and in there there is a table salt holder that is literally a tiny castle (that actually isn’t that tiny) and that is so extra I love it. Also in the square was the White Tower which held a bunch of different armor and was really cool to look at; in there was also a giant dragon made out of different armory things which was pretty cool. Then we went out to Dinner at an Indian place before going to see Les Mis which was so amazing. It had a spinning floor and the barracks were superb. And all the marching and deaths looked fantastic. Enjolras (the lead rebel guy) had an amazing death; he flipped over the back of the set around a bar, and then when it rotated around he was just hanging off the barracks with one leg! Finally, to get home we took a cab, which I didn’t realize they had seats facing both ways in the back.
