Granty's week in London

Hello from central London,

We have been here for a week and are now winding down our London leg of the trip, and getting ready to go thru to Paris tomorrow. Over the past week we have done heaps in London, the first highlight for me was being directly by Big Ben as it struck 8am last Wednesday morning. We then carried on thru the streets of London to our first tourist attraction the Tower of London, where we checked out where Anne Boleyn was executed, where Guy Fawkes was questioned over the burning down of parliament, and where Sir Walter Raleigh and Thomas Moore were imprisoned. We were also entertained with stories of daring do and rebellion.

We also checked out sights around London, which up until now I had only learnt about in school, and seen in movies and in books, including Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, and Tower Bridge. It's also been great fun to see all the iconic london cabs and double decker buses. And we've even taken a few rides in a few London cabs which has also been fun.







Other things we've done have been visiting Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and seen all sorts of wax figures of Jonah Lomu, Stephen Spielberg, and members of the Royal Family. One wax figure we saw was of Prince Charles and you could actually argue that he looks like that in real life!




Rocking down with We Will Rock You at the West End's Dominion Theatre and taking in a football friendly at Wembley Stadium.



Last night we found a real English pub where I had a good feed of bangers and mash, and a Guiness or two, and mixed with the locals.

Until the next blog, bye for now.

Grant


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