Mark & I took a 14 day Baltic Cruise in the fall of 2004. Since our ship was leaving out of Dover, England we decided to spend a few days in London before embarking our cruise ship. There's no way I could include all the pictures we took so I've scanned a few of my scrapbook pages.
The hotels in London were pathetic. The rooms were tiny and as Mark is demonstrating... the hallways were so very narrow! But it didn't matter b/c we were out on the town nearly the entire time. We just came back to our room to sleep!
It was very awesome to see Parliament and the tower that holds Big Ben. They are such icons that we've seen in movies and pictures, so to see them in real life was very cool!
We saw Les Miserables in the theatre where it first premiered back in 1985. It was an incredible show, even though we were suffering big time from jet lag!
We started the day in sunshine and by the afternoon we were in rain ponchos and we were soaked! But we refused to give up and we stayed on the top level of the double decker bus and continued to see the sights!
We happened to be in London during the months that Buckingham Palace is open for tours. The queen was basically forced to do this as a way of raising money because the citizens were outraged when she spent over a million dollars to repair Belmoral Castle after a fire. This is how she is raising money to reimburse some of that cost. They speculate that when it is paid in full, there will be no more tours of Buckingham Palace.
Our last night we walked around and checked out China Town and a few other miscellaneous sights.
The cars in London were so tiny! They are made to get something like 100 kilometers to the gallon because gas is approximately $5.00 per gallon. But, my goodness, they were little tin cans!
