Thursday, March 12, 2009

Day One in London ...Along the River

Westminster Abbey - views from across the river. We rode on the top level of a tour bus; got off in Westminster and walked by all the buildings to see them up close. These pictures were taken from a cruise on the Thames River.
Does anybody know what time it is? The famous Big Ben !
The Tower Bridge. Learned that this is not the bridge in the children's song "London Bridge is Falling Down". We rode under London Bridge previous to this picture. It is a regular bridge -- nothing too special about it -- except it's history.



The Tower of London -- we arrived here too late for a tour but may do this tomorrow. We ended our day with a ride on our hop-on hop-off Sightseeing tour back to the Charing Cross area. Then walked up to Leister Square to ride the tube (subway system) back to Russell Square -- which is the nearest tube station to our hotel, about a 5 minute walk.
Dinner was at "Friend in Hand" Pub and consisted of Fish & Chips and a Pint. (or two)


2 comments:

pjpink said...

Great pictures!

Michelle Lovatt said...

Hi Mary and Julie. We are following your blog and enjoying seeing what you are doing. Tell Julie happy birthday today for us. We are having Ireland weather today! Gary and Michelle at the lake.