London -- April 2002 Photos

Terry and I got a great offer from AA.vacations that we just couldn't pass up. We went to London for the weekend. Left Thursday night, arrived Heathrow at 6:30 AM Friday. Returned noon on Monday. It was a glorious 3-4 day trip.

After landing, we dropped off our luggage at the hotel. Then we started out to explore London.

Friday adventures:

• Thames river cruise. Since it was drizzling, this seemed like a good thing to start with and we could get a view of lots of London from the boat.
• Cleopatra needle
• Lunch at a riverside cafe
• Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben.
• Quick nap at hotel
• Harrods to do some shopping
• Back to the hotel where we found an excellent Nepal restaurant right by the tube stop

Saturday adventures:

• Started with Tower of London where the crown jewels are kept
• Tower bridge
• Lunch
• Leichester Square to get some 1/2 price tickets for a play that afternoon
• British museum
• Piccadilly Square
• All the works of Shakespeare in 91 minutes. Terry even got to sit in a 'box seat' above the theater that she always wanted to do. It was an awesome theater
• Dinner at a local pub near the tube
• Crashed at the hotel

Sunday we went to:

• Madame Truseau
• Planetarium (dissappointing)
• Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guard
• Royal Mews where they keep the carriages and Rolls Royce and Bentleys
• Kennsington Palace (nice if you want to see Princess Di dresses)
• Covent Gardens which now has lots of shopping
• British Transportation Museum
• St. Pauls Cathedral
• Millenium Bridge

British Museum

Buckingham Palace before the changing of the guards

The millenium wheel. You can see in the background how it is larger than some of the buildings near by.

This is a new building going up. Forget what's supposed to be in it, but the shape is very interesting.

The theatre we went to see all the plays of Shakespeare in

Tower bridge

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