Recap of the london tour.

So I realize I haven't been posting alot in this blog but I didnt really have any stable internet that I was using tell now. I'm now going to do a couple post in a row to cover what has been happening lately. I'm going to do a recap of the London Tour all the main highlights and good stuff like that and then cover some of the area of me being in Leicester for the past few days.
Now I begin with the tour:

The day I land in London is the day the tour begins which was the 20th of Sept. I get picked up at the airport by the school it was a nice airport got a little lost in it but the place is huge so who can blame me for getting a little lost. Since I landed in terminal 4 and had to take the heathrow express to terminal 3. Once they picked all the students up they drove us into central London and the tour guide pointed out some intersting things. After dropping off the luggage at the one hotel and putting my and a few others luggage in a van to be taken to the second hotel we headed to the London eye. The eye was cool. We got hop in one of the pods and ride up to the top. The view at the top was amazing, got some good pics from up.

That was about it for day one mostly after the eye went back to the hotel and chilled for a bit. Did ride the tube for a bit on my first day there that was a fun experience.
Day 2:

Woke up early, had a nice breakfast. Then we rode the tube and headed towards the Tower of London. Pretty cool place didn't see any ghost though but I did see the crown jewels shiny, big, pretty gems on the crowns and stuff. Couldn't take any pictures in the vault so I don't have any pictures of the jewels. But heres a pic of the tower of london.

Ignore the random people in the picture. There's always going to be someone walking by in most of my pics it was hard to get a clean shot with alot people about.

The tour also took us on a boat cruise after the visit to the tower that was nice. The cruise took us to are next to Westminster Abbey the abbey was pretty awesome. Couldn't take any pictures inside the Abbey but I took some nice ones of the outside of it.

After the abbey the tour took us to a welcome dinner at a nearby pub. Had the bangers and mash for dinner it was pretty good. After that we had free time but I pretty much went back to the area where are hotel was and hanged out with the other people from that hotel in a pub that was by the hotel.


Day 3
Went to the British Museum it was amazing so much to see but we where only there for less than 2 hours. So sometime during the term I'm going to go back and visit the rest of it for I barely saw a fraction of what they had there. then after the museum we saw the Houses of Parliament and learned a little bit of how the government here is run. Then after Parliament we had free time so a group of us got together and headed of to King Cross to find Platform 9 3/4. :) and we found it. Then later that evening we saw Wicked which was awesome I loved it!!!

Day 4

I spent the day out at Hampton Court and seeing the gardens there. Then later that evening we went out on the Jack the Ripper Walk which was intersting.





Day 5

We got to do the Shakespeare's Walk and take a tour through the Globe. Then after that we went to St. Paul's Cathedral and walked around the inside for a bit then we climbed to the very top of the dome. The view was amazing the climb up though was an intense cardio exercise though. It was well over 500 steps probably. Then after all that me and another group did another harry potter thing. We walked across the Millennium Bridge which is seen in the beginning of the 6th harry potter movie. Then went over to the Tate Modern and look at some Modern art some of it was actually pretty neat to look and mostly look at the photography shots many where beautiful but some of the sculptures where different.

Day 6

Day 6 was a Sunday and it was free time for us to do what ever we wanted. Me and a group went to Buckingham palace since it is only open a few months out of the year and we walked through there so the wedding dress from the royal wedding, a couple of the main state rooms, and the gardens around the palace. We went to Trafalgar square and climbed up the lions that are there, it was fun trying to figure out how to get up them. then we went to Leicester square and looked for Diagon alley and found it! :)

Day 7

We left London and headed to Oxford and tour around the city for a few hours and the countryside was beautiful to see. Of course while we were at Oxford and toured around for a bit we found the great hall that inspired the one in the harry potter movie and the staircase from the first movie that they walk up before they get sorted. Then later that night I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company performing that was fun to watch. Then did the Merchant of Venice I was kinda rusty with my Shakespeare so it took me a minute sometimes to follow the story line but I followed it.

Day 8
We walked around Stratford, saw where Shakespeare was born and buried. Then after that we went to Warwick Castle and walked around for a bit and then headed of to Leicester.


That's the end of the London tour I posted more pics on facebook if you want to look but this is the background and explanation from where all the pics came from.