Lori and Tim in the UK: London

London

We spent a long weekend in London and dropped off Mom and Dad near Heathrow for their flight home. The weather was very consistent (rain/drizzle, 50's for highs) throughout the weekend. We stayed near Heathrow and took the tube into the city each day. We were professional tube-riders after the first day.

The building is the background is the "egg". It's London's City Hall.

Inside the grounds of the Tower of London, with the Tower Bridge in the background. Saw the Crown jewels.

The Tower Bridge

More tower of London

Legend has it, that if the Ravens leave the Tower of London, the Monarchy will fall. Just to be on the safe side, they keep 6 of them roaming around the grounds. This one was particularly bold and vocal.

Guards protecting the crown jewels

Tower Bridge and the River Thames. No sunny pictures this time

View from the tower Bridge

The Eye of London.. Each capsule holds 30-40 people and it takes 30 minutes to go one revolution. It doesn't stop when they let people off so only the agile don't go for a 2nd loop.

Tim and Lori by the River Thames, with Parliament and Big Ben in the background

The building housing the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It was closed or I'm sure we'd been ushered in for tea and crumpets.

Buckingham Palace

London activity - aboard a double decker open-air bus

St. Paul's Cathedral

Memorial to the great fire of London, September 2-6, 1666 which started in a bakery and burned most of London's buildings. The tower was placed so that if it fell, the top of the tower would land on the bakery where the fire started. The positive of the fire, was that it killed the rats that were carrying the plague at the time and stopped the outbreak.