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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Things to do: London, England


National Gallery

The National Gallery, London houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free. The National Gallery's permanent collection spans the period from about 1250 to 1900 and consists of Western European paintings.

Tower of London

One of London's most famous landmarks, the historic Tower houses the Crown Jewels, the prison cell of Sir Walter Raleigh, known as the Bloody Tower, and the Chapel of St. John and the Royal Armories.

Borough Market

Borough Market is London’s oldest food market. It was established on the south bank of the Thames when the Romans built the first London Bridge. It has occupied its present site for 250 years. Borough has a long and distinguished history as a wholesale fruit and vegetable market - wholesale trade takes place every night except Saturday from 2am – 8am.

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace has served as the official London residence of Britain's sovereigns since 1837. It evolved from a town house that was owned from the beginning of the eighteenth century by the Dukes of Buckingham. Today it is The Queen's official residence, with 775 rooms.

Eat at Hard Rock Cafe

Standing on Old Park Lane since June 14th 1971. It still houses the first ever piece of memorabilia donated to the Hard Rock Cafe, Eric Clapton's Lead II Fender, originally donated to reserve a space at the busy bar, the London Cafe is as charming and authentic now as it was 35 years ago.

3 comments:

Admin said...

There is also the London Eye. There is an aquarium nearby too, but it's not all that great. They had a Star Wars exhibit (I didn't go in) also nearby while we were there. It was cool for Star Wars people, I guess you could act like a jedi with one of those light sticks (whatever they are called). There is an ice cream shop in the same area where you can get waffles and ice cream. There is also the Imperial War Museum, as guys I figured you might like that type of thing. Buckingham Palace was cool, but you can't see shit because it is uber crowded. Get ur picture taken by a London phone booth, but don't go inside unless you hold ur breath. London is expensive and a lot of ppl there are loaded so you will probably see a lot of Ferrari's and the like. If you can, hit up Harrods.

Admin said...

One other thing you have to get used to while in Europe, they aren't big on ice, quite stingy actually, and if you're expecting to be served a nice cold beer while in London don't. I couldn't drink it myself, but I am not a big beer drinker.

Tony said...

Great blog. Vicki i know exactly wat your talking about on the ice thing. I was in france and I asked for a cup of ice, just an empty cup of ice, i already had the can of soda, and the kind miss gave a cup with one single cube of ice, it melted almost immediately lol. On a side i found a cool site you might want to check out. its called baraaza.com