Our England Trip
We visited Oxford and many of the various colleges there. These gargoyle type heads were all over many of buildings.
Us in one of the college courtyards. We took a guided tour of the city and saw dining halls, chapels and courtyards that were just beautiful.
A college dormitory and dining hall.
The famous pub where CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein used to meet with other friends. We had coffee and a piece of pie here. It took close to 30 minutes to get the drinks and another 20 or so to get our pie (which we then ate in about 5 minutes :)
Tom and Katie with Richard and Emma - newly married! They stayed around for day after their wedding, so we got to hang out with them a little. Then they left for their honeymoon to Malaysia - fun!
Sunday, November 8 was Remembrance Day to honor all of the war veterans. This parade went down the street right outside our hotel.
I loved the red phone booths all over the place.
The Tower Bridge.
Buckingham Palace - no changing of the guard that day.
In a wet Trafalgar Square.
The Rosetta Stone at the British Museum.
A real mummy at the British Museum.
Tom's artistic picture of the Tower Bridge. We took the little tour of it and got to walk across the pedestrian path seen at the top. The bottom section can move up to let boats through - the official name (in case you want to know) is a bascule bridge.
We got dressed up and went to see Les Miserables while in London.
London Bridge
Kensington Palace. We were going to tour this, too, but we got our times mixed up :( I thought last entry was at 5, but it was at 4:00. Oh well - there's always next time. It was hard to do everything we wanted to do because things opened around 10:00 and closed at 4:00 or 5:00.
However, we did manage to make it in time for tea at the Orangery - right behind Kensington Palace. It was wonderful!! The sandwiches were dainty, the scones soft and delicious, the jams delectable and the tea cakes a variety of yumminess. This was one of my favorite things that we did on the trip. Tom endured it and ate a hamburger later.
We found a plaque dedicated to Switzerland in London.
We stopped at Stonehenge on our way to Bath. It's amazing to think that this structre is probably over 4,000 years old.
The Roman bath was probably my favorite site that we visited. The hot springs are still there just like they were 2,000 years ago. You can see the steam rising up from behind us. Some of the original plumbing still worked!
I got to visit the Jane Austen center. I really like her books and enjoyed learning more about her and seeing the town she lived in and wrote about.
We visited the Fashion Museum in Bath where I got to try on a corset and crinoline. Needless to say, they aren't the most comfortable things in the world.
William Shakespeare's birthplace and childhood home. Did you know his father made leather gloves for a living? That was news to me.
Shakespeare's grave. His wife, daugter and son-in-law are buried next to him.
2 comments:
Hey Tom and Katie, this is Lacey ( and Mike) from West Merritts! I found a link to your blog on Kitti's page. I love all of your pictures, so beautiful. I didn't know you guys were living in Switzerland. I think we are way out of the loop. Thanks for sharing. Lacey <><
Fun red phone booths! Wow, that corset is cool looking... maybe we should have a ball sometime when we're all in the same place and wear hoop skirts haha :) I did not know that Shakespeare's dad made leather gloves either :)
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