Saturday, August 3, 2013

Thames River and the Tower of London

Iconic phonebooth

We saw the Crown Jewels, however, photos were not allowed.
The guard outside the crown jewels. Literally thirty seconds after I took this photo,
some punk kids tried to climb over the rail towards him and got screamed at.

The guard patrolling

Where the crown jewels are kept

  







The Tower Bridge


The Tower Bridge

Where pirates and traitors were hung for three tides util dead.

The Thames River Police; established before the street police.

A pub named after a famous pirate.

The Mayflower pub, built where the Mayflower originally set voyage.

Byron, the rooftop cafe where we had AMAZING burgers and chips.

Our view from Byron


A monument to the great London fire.

A real pirate ship!

The Anchor was the pub Shakespeare went after watching his plays

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre


Cleopatra's Monument

Royal Festival Hall, where legends such as Sir Elton John, have performed.

Our ''unofficial'' tour guide, who was far better than the other ''official'' commentary

Our tour boat

Big Ben!!

Big Ben!

The Eye of London
One of the Eye's capsules





There's our day in pictures!

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