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| That's Cedric our travelling gnome companion on my fist...we realized after that it looks like he's giving you the finger! haha |
We had a good flight here...thankfully the middle of the 3 seats was empty so we could stretch out a bit. We spent the afternoon in St. Pauls Cathedral. I've taken photos from the outside before but never went in and was I ever missing out. It was really beautiful. It was built in 1668 and was the tallest building in London until 1962. We were able to climb the 560 steps to the top of the dome for outstanding views of London. There's a plexi-glass window from the top of the dome that looks down 365 feet to the nave below...very trippy! Half the way up to the top there is a circular gallery that you can walk around and it has incredible acoustics...if you whisper on one side of the room a person can hear you clearly all the way on the other side. We went to Abbey Road afterwards to take a copy of the famous Beatles album cover...us and a million other people..... making it impossible, especially with busy traffic. We might try again earlier in the day tomorrow.
My parents, coincindentally, happen to be travelling in Europe too and they joined us at St.Pauls and for dinner later on.
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| Mom and Dad |
Then we finished our night at the theatre! We saw Mamma Mia and it was fabulous.
Well, off to bed to rest up for the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey tomorrow.
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| View of St. Paul's from across the Millennium bridge. |
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| Piccadilly Circus after the theater. |
2 comments:
Cool that you got to see Wally and Lou! Was there a lot of Paralympic stuff going on?
The opening ceremonies were on our second day there. There was a big party in Trafalger square showing it on a big theatre screen. I'm sure there was more but that's all we ran into.
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