London Bridge is Falling Down....

In today’s GST class we took a walking tour of London with a tour guide (who’s cousin is an English prof at Elon). We’ll be doing different segments of walking tours, so today was focused on the early history. This mainly included Roman rule, Medieval history, Norwegian invasions, Viking invasions…all that fun stuff. So we saw things like:

-Londinium Wall (Roman & Medieval): Londinium was just one square mile of London

            -London Towers

-location and monument of the Great Fire: a baker is probably what caused the fire…it burnt down 30% of the city

            -location of other executions such as Sir Thomas More

-the location of Diagon Alley & the wand shop! (this makes me really excited for our Harry Potter tour in May!!)

            -Financial district including the Bank & Royal Exchange

-the door knocker that probably inspired Dicken’s image for the Christmas Carol

            -the location of the turkey Scrooge buys from the Christmas Carol

            -and probably a lot more too, but it was really cold!

We’ve had cold days, rare snow flurries, but we haven’t had the grey, drab weather everyone talks about in regards to London…I’m sure it will come soon enough.

            Our tour guide, Sean, was absolutely fantastic! He had a great accent, older guy, great style, and was seriously right out of a movie. We’ll be having lots of other tours with him too so I’m excited about that.

This isn’t an overly thrilling blog post, all I’ve done since the class is research and research and research travel plans! It’s getting a little stressful & way too much to handle…

            Fun Fact: the London Bridge is actually currently very boring…it’s the Tower Bridge that’s gorgeous across the Thames River.

             FF #2: There are so many pigeons!! (Mary Poppins anyone…that’s what I think of). Seriously they are everywhere, and they fly above my head way too close for comfort…

           FF#3: To Let means For Rent....I think...it's taken me awhile to figure that out

           FF#4: I really like the clocks hanging off of the buildings. It's not always on specifically important buildings, but I really like them. They always look very fancy.