In and Around London

From the 12^th of June to the 20^th of June we were in London.  For the first 4 nights we were in a Travel Lodge hotel in Kingston and the last 4 nights we were in Wimbledon at a friend’s house.

We went to;

- The Tower Bridge

- Tower of London

- Lego Land Windsor

- Buckingham Palace

- Natural History Museum

- Windsor Castle

- Stratford – upon – Avon (the town of Shakespear’s birthplace and where he died)

- Houses of Parliment

- Bourton-on-the-Water

The Tower Bridge:
Tower bridge is a very elegant bridge that was built in 1894.
It is a special bridge because it opens up when a big boat needs to come through!  There are also 2 small foot bridges above the one that cars and pedestrians can use.
Once the boats are through they can't go any further!

Tower Bidge as a tall ship goes under.

Buckingham Palace:

This is one of three of the Queen's residences, the others are Windsor Castle and Balmoral Castle

Whenever the Queen is home the British flag is raised.

Buckingham Palace is 208 years old!  It has 775 rooms, only 19 of which are open to the public, that means  756 are private!!!

Buckingham Palace

This is me pretending to be a Welsh Guard outside Buckingham Palace!

Tower of London:

William the Conqueror replaced an earth and timber castle with the White Tower in 1080!
The tower was used as a royal residence.  Twenty  years after it was built they kept prisoners and animals such as lions monkeys and Polar bears!  The prisoners were kept in the dungeons then they got executed.


Yeoman Warders (Beefeaters) are guards that have served in the Military for at least 22 years and have been awarded medals.  They live in the tower houses and give tours of the Tower of London.

The Beefeater that gave us a tour.

A Welsh guard

Beef-eaters.

Actors dressed up as people from the 1800's

Legoland Windsor:


Legoland Windsor was opened in 1996 in Windsor on the block of a Windsor Safari Park.  It is a big theme park filled with lego statues and rides, some of the rides involve you getting drenched and some are for you to look at the Lego statues.  The fun park is aimed for children 3-12.  It is obviously very popular because it is the 2nd most visited theme park in the UK!

This is one of the many huge statues!

Lego or real?

Do these look familiar from my last post of my canal trip? 
This is the model town which is all made of Lego!

These are the Welsh Guards outside Buckingham Palace in the model village.

Here are some Beefeaters!

Have you seen my new friends?

Bourton-on-the-Water:


This village is an exact replica of the actual town! It is made out of tiny bricks and roof tiles and everything that you would use for a real house!  My dad use to come here when he was little.  

This is the sign to the model Village in Bourton-on-the-Water.

This is a picture of the real town, the model town and the model town of the model town!

I had a fantastic time in London!


To find out more about the different places visit
Tower of London-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London
Tower Bridge-http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_bridges/tower_bridge1.htm
Buckingham Palace-http://www.tourist-information-uk.com/buckingham-palace.htm