UNITED KINGDOM - DAY 16 Walked down to the bus stop to wait for the Hop On Hop Off bus again. We want to put a warning out there for anyone going to London. Don't use the Golden Tour Company. You have to wait up to an hour for the buses to come. In that time the Original Tour Company and The Big Bus Tour have had 5 to 6 buses come around. After we finally made it to the Tower Bridge we climbed aboard the lift and ascended to the walkways across the top. Once ...

UNITED KINGDOM - DAY 15 Headed out this morning to catch the Golden Tour Hop On Hop Off Bus. We thought we had the right bus stop but discovered we were at the wrong one. Anyway an hour later we finally boarded the bus and headed into the city to start seeing the sights. We went straight to the Tower of London. We joined a Yeoman guide Steve, otherwise known as a Beefeater who took us on a fabulous tour around the tower telling us lots of interesting stories ...

UNITED KINGDOM - DAY 14 We slept in this morning and after breakfast we headed towards Trafalgar Square to collect out London Passes. We headed down into the underground and boarded the tube to London Bridge. Once there we made our way to the London Tombs an awesome attraction that is both educational and scary at the same time. The girls opted for a guardian angel and we moved through the attraction with most of the scary things turned off. The girls still g...

UNITED KINGDOM - DAY 13 We left Warwick and travelled towards London, stopping in Cotswolds where we viewed the gravesite of Sir Winston Churchill. It was a tiny church and there were quite a few of his family members buried there. He wanted a very plain grave. No headstone or anything. We then headed into Oxford, the oldest university city in England. It was certainly full of young university students. We discovered that students who attend Oxford, have a tu...

UNITED KINGDOM - DAY 12 Today we travelled to Stratford, the home of William Shakespeare. His family were quite wealthy and William didn't go to school until he was 11. He left at 15 with very little education as he wasn't interested in school. He liked to watch the traveling players and to dabble in poaching. He was married to Anne Hathaway when he was 18 to her 26. Within several months Anne was pregnant, and Will Shakespeare got spooked and ran off and was...