I Love London!

Last evening, after 24 straight hours awake, we returned to Sacramento from London. While there is certainly "no place like home," I have to confess that London is one of my favorite cities in the world. My question about that city is: how long would one have to live there to do everything once? What a rich, interesting place!

Just to give you an idea of some of the places we saw:

We visited the Tower of London, where prisoners were kept by kings and queens of long ago.

The Tower is famous for its ravens,

and its guards.

Back in the day, it was also home for jousting knights.

The Traitor's Gate is where boats brought the prisoners.

Outside of the Tower is the Tower Bridge. Prisoners would have loved to travel across that!

We got a rare chance to go inside Buckingham Palace, one of the castles housing the queen of England.


We went to several museums (all free!), like the British Museum:


And probably my favorite-- a walk AND a nighttime boat ride along the Thames River.




We traveled nearly everywhere either on double-decker busses, or on a train that run underneath the city, called the Underground.


Overall, the thing I can say most about London was on a poster in the underground: