City Hall - Not OldTower of London - Old

Tower Bridge - Looks Old, but Isn't

We went out today to see the sights. We didn't spend a lot of money, mostly we just walked around and looked at different things. It rained lightly the whole time. As Zoe, the gal that occupied the seat next to me flying into London, would say, the weather was, "mad grotty." I took a few pictures.

I enjoyed wandering around the streets of London. I wondered if my dad had ever spent much time in the city. The street layout, the little shops, the age of the buildings, and the pedestrian lifestyle reminded me very much of France.

People were on edge. We were in the British Museum and an announcement came over the PA saying that whoever had chained a suitcase to the front gate needed to go retrieve it immediately. There were bomb scares all over the city all day. Unfortunately, because of the bombings, the tube was not going to be running again for as long as a week. Many of the stores were closed because employees could not get into work. We were unable to go to some of the sites we would have liked to, but it was certainly interesting to be in London at the time of such a crisis.