London - Day 2

Today we decided to go on a walk around London. First we visited British Library but soon left cause we needed a readers pass, so we decided to come back another day.

Followed by a train ride to Westminster Station were we saw Big Ben and Parliament House, and took some photos. Afterwards we walked to West Minster Abbey. Where we saw many statues and memorials of famous kings, queens, and various heads of states from through out the ages of British history, who were buried underneath where we were standing.

After some spending at the souvenir shop we went to Bucking Ham Palace just in time for the changing of the guards. The funniest thing happened while we were there. Not knowing that we were actually there already, I asked this policeman where it was and to my embarrassment we had already stood in front of it for 25 minutes.
We then walked back near Big Ben to go ride “The London Eye” only to find out it was too expensive. Maybe next time? So we went back towards Buckingham Palace to see Hyde Park. On the way we stopped at West Minster Cathedral and I got a bottle of holy water. Followed by another stop at “The Marble Arch”, built in commemoration of Duke Wellington. Not only that there was also an Anzac memorial. I think Darren got a bit patriotic there.

Finally we reached “Hyde Park” it was huge and took about half hour walking around one half of the outside and another half hour to walk back through it. Finally we had enough for the day and caught the train back and had dinner at the same pub.


BIG BEN