Canadians at a Shakespeare Pub We did some more wandering this morning... It never ceased to amaze me the random VERY old stuff that is smack in the middle of newer stuff. Stumbled upon Somerset House... Will have to look it up, no clue what it is but it was old and interesting looking. Found out our friend Lindsay is in London as well! Met up and spent the afternoon at the Shakespeare pub near Buckingham Palace. The downstairs had these little (like have to du...

Greenwhich and More about Beer After the Tower of London we hopped on a ferry to Greenwhich. Along the way we passed centuries old pubs including the one that Charles Dickens apparently wrote Great Expectations at. Ian McKellen also owns a pub on the river and lives near by. It was interesting the entire river is lined with high end condo's. Greenwhich is pretty cool, the Cutty sailing ship is housed there (take a guess how much if you wanna walk aboard?) as w...

Tower of London I don't think we could have packed more into our day! We started by going to see the Tower of London, which was well worth the 20£ and is a good 3 hours to take it all in. The coolest thing about London is you have this modern city with skyscrapers and glass buildings and right beside it you will have a church or castle that is centuries old! There is so much history at the Tower of London...wars, peasant revolts, attempts to over throw the thr...

Wa,wa,wa,wanderers Started our day in Picadilly Circus/ Covent Garden area. The train system is so easy to navigate we jumped all over the city! Bought tickets to the hop on hop off bus tour. It is the best way to see the city, get some history of what you are seeing and decide where you want to go. Hopped off at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which is a rebuild from a fire. It was pretty cool to see but to go inside it was 20£ (40$) .... Everything costs arou...

Made it on the overnight flight! Wasn't as bad as expected but still arrived exhausted. Navigated the trains ok and made it to our London home... Well the travel lodge. Rooms clean but a bit nervous as this was suppose to be a 'king size' bed... We have several twin size beds booked on the trip and I hate to see what Europe calls a twin when this King is a double at best. The area we are staying in is in the financial district. We set out at 530 to explore and g...