Here are pictures from what we have done so far. Today we went to London Tower, Tower Bridge, The Design Museum, The Globe theatre and The Tate Modern. I know most people already know this, but the English really did behead a lot of people. Our Beefeater took us into a chapel about the size of a four car garage and told us that when they went to renovate the chapel, under the floor they found 1,500 headless bodies. With the exception of Ann Bolyn, she had her head in the crook of her arm, and some King’s brother who they had to sew the head back onto so they could have a portrait painted of him. Out of the 1,500 they could only identify 33. We thought the Tower would be just that. One tower. It was in fact the old palace. The Beefeaters and their families still live there. On Monday the first female Beefeater starts working at the tower. The British woke us up again today. By the British I mean the four Brits that are sharing our hostel room with us. How do they wake us up you say. They slam the door to our room, they let the faucet run for a long time and they hold pretty long conversations. Then they leave for breakfast and come back and hang out in the room for about an hour. Today we decided to just get up when they do and leave. I went into the room pretty late last night and let the door slam, before going back to where Jessica was. The British go to bed around 10:30. That was kind of pleasant.
-M and J
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Responses to “London Pictures. Day 3”
August 30th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
last time I had a Beefeater show me to my room, he was WAY better looking than that!
Gays
August 30th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I’m curious about the grapefruit beer as well. I’ve had raspberry ale, that’s pretty good.
As for England being expensive, no kidding!! We hardly could afford to eat when we where there. Well we where in Scotland, but same prices. I think if you can find a subway, it may be one of the cheapest things you can eat.
Laura
August 30th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
You CANNOT leave London without eating one of their meat pies!
They are super cheap, at least when I was there it was 1 or 2 pounds, and they are great.
Filling & Cheap. Leaves room and money for the pubs. =^)
August 31st, 2007 at 3:48 am
hey tim.
thanks for the tip about the pictures. we will just leave this post alone and starting actually posting them next time.
thanks
the grapefruit beer was just an ale that had the slightest hint of grapefruit. so tasty!
August 31st, 2007 at 7:11 am
Good morning! Is everybody going crazy with the memorial service? Did you see Henry and William? If you do, buy them a beer on my card!
m
August 31st, 2007 at 10:15 am
Feeling better now, that we made contact and all is well.Have FUN!!!
CD
August 31st, 2007 at 10:25 pm
If you get a chance to tryit, pomegranit (I’m sure that is spelled worng) beer is great.
l/m
September 1st, 2007 at 10:11 am
Hola Antonio y Jessica, que bueno que la estan pasando bien, manden fotos cuando puedan. Antonio que aburrido que no estes en la casa nos sentimos muy solos. Mucha suerte en el viaje y que la pasen bien
tu mama
August 30th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Looks like you guys are having fun! I notice a lot of pubs on your site seeing list, so you are definitely getting to enjoy London.
Do you want your pictures to appear in your posts? I can help you with that. You just have to select “thumbnail” when you upload the picture instead of “link”. Then it places the picture into the body of the post.
I will do it to one of your pictures for you, and then let me know and I can change the rest. If you wanted them to appear as links I will change it back, but at least I will do one so you will see what it looks like.
That Jerusalem bar looks like it is next to a construction site, or actually some bombed out part of Jerusalem! =^)
What the heck is a grapefruit beer???
- Tim