Today was a "full" day of wonderful activities.
We started with buying breakfast at "our" breakfast restaurant and were soon on the tube to the Tower of London. Now that was a great visit. There was no line ups anywhere!
The first thing we did was get a tour with a Beefeater. He was really great and made the 45 minute tour fly by.
After the tour was completed we spent another 2 hours seeing the Crown jewels,and military equipment.
I would have taken photos of the Crown jewels but that is a BIG NO-NO.
We checked out the prison cells, torture chambers, the Ravens, and anything else that caught our attention.
After that it was the Tower Bridge which we toured as well. Below is a photo of me laying on plexi-glass with the bridge and river WAY DOWN below. I am actually taking the photograph while looking into a mirror above me.Caro was too freaked out to walk on the plexi-glass.
From there we starting walking to St.Pauls cathedral
It was getting to be mid afternoon so we sat down for a coke just to catch our breath.
About 30 minutes later we were at St.Paul's Cathedral and WOW it is pretty cool. We each had our own audio guide (free with entry ticket) so wandered around for half an hour. Once we had that completed we decided to walk to the top of the dome. It was 528 steps to get there but it was worth it for the view of the city.
In the center of the photo above you can see the London Eye ferris wheel. That was near our next stop, so naturally we walked over!
At 6 PM we used our hop-on hop-off pass again for another 60 minutes of sightseeing ( we had pretty much seen everything by then anyway but it was a pleasant way to spend an hour).
We caught the tube up to Paddington station then went to a local restaurant for fish and chips. Yummy!
My cell shows we did 24,000 steps,walked 17.3 kilometres, and climbed the equivalent of 66 flights of stairs! Caro's Garmin says we actually climbed 77 flights if stairs- anyway it was a lot!!
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