A Day In Pictures

Alright, the pictures are being stupid again, so I'll just write this for now and put them on here when I get a minute. 

~~6-13-10~~

In the morning: the market. It's mostly just on Saturday, but some vendors were out on Sunday. They said it was only a tiny bit of the Saturday market. :( But it was really cool. There were all sorts of things for sale. One guy tried to sell me some Agatha Christie books (which I had been looking for anyhow), but they cost 40 pounds!! that's around 60 dollars. They were rare old copies, but I told him that I would have to get a copy I could read instead of one that had to sit on the shelf. :)

Went to Paddington Station to get tickets for the bus tour. Really cool place, that. There IS a 12:40 from Paddington, just like in And Then There Were None!! That made my day...so far. We walked to Trafalgar Square and had lunch in a place across the street. A-mazing.

On the bus tour we saw:

Big Ben/Houses of Parliament

The London Eye

St. Paul's Cathedral

The Tower Bridge

The Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

Hyde Park

Westminster Abbey

Trafalgar Square

And lots of other really cool things. All from the open top deck of a double decker bus!! It was incredible.

 

In the middle of the bus tour (you could get on and off at frequent stops) we went to Buckingham Palace, had tea, met an Austrian Nun (Sister Alberta) who had just spoken at Speakers Corner, went to Speakers Corner, and walked through Hyde Park a bit. Then we went to Church at Holy Trinity. That was quite interesting.

{speakers corner}

{Holy Trinity}

Then we had dinner at an Italian place (I know, Italian again! But it was fantabulous), and then went back to the hotel and crashed!

Tomorrow: London Eye, River "Cruise", the Tower of London.