I just made it back into Lille from London. I had an awesome time there this weekend. Thank you again Jennifer and John for setting things up and taking care of me.
I woke up before 6 yesterday morning and took a train under the Chunnel to St. Pancras Station in the middle of London (it took a little over an hour), where I met up with my relatives, Jennifer and John. We left the station and bought an all day double-decker bus tour pass that drops you off at different points of interest. Our first stop was Trafalgar Square. We walked from there to St. James Palace and followed the marching buckskin soldiers to the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, which was really cool.
After that, we rode the bus around for a while and saw Picadilly Circus (where we stayed) which is like the Times Square of London. We ate fish and chips at a pub, and then walked down towards the river. There we saw Big Ben, Parliament, and Westminster Abbey.
After seeing all of that, we got on a boat and road down the Thames to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. We went on a tour with a Beefeater and saw where all of Henry VIII's queens were beheaded and everything. Then we ate a really good dinner at the hotel.
We spent this morning at the Imperial War Museum. It was really interesting and huge-- you could probably spend three entire days in there. After that, we walked to the British Museum, where we saw the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, Cleopatra's mummy, and an alleged thorn from the Crown of Thorns. When we finished at the museum, it was time to get back on the train and head back to Lille. It was a great weekend, though!
I woke up before 6 yesterday morning and took a train under the Chunnel to St. Pancras Station in the middle of London (it took a little over an hour), where I met up with my relatives, Jennifer and John. We left the station and bought an all day double-decker bus tour pass that drops you off at different points of interest. Our first stop was Trafalgar Square. We walked from there to St. James Palace and followed the marching buckskin soldiers to the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, which was really cool.
After that, we rode the bus around for a while and saw Picadilly Circus (where we stayed) which is like the Times Square of London. We ate fish and chips at a pub, and then walked down towards the river. There we saw Big Ben, Parliament, and Westminster Abbey.
After seeing all of that, we got on a boat and road down the Thames to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. We went on a tour with a Beefeater and saw where all of Henry VIII's queens were beheaded and everything. Then we ate a really good dinner at the hotel.
We spent this morning at the Imperial War Museum. It was really interesting and huge-- you could probably spend three entire days in there. After that, we walked to the British Museum, where we saw the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, Cleopatra's mummy, and an alleged thorn from the Crown of Thorns. When we finished at the museum, it was time to get back on the train and head back to Lille. It was a great weekend, though!
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