Winston Churchill. There are as many monuments to Winston Churchill as there are to some of the monarchies (with the exception of Henry VIII. He is EVERYWHERE in London). Josh is a big fan, so he was thrilled with this.
These taxi's are everywhere. I loved how very "British" they were.
These are the huge double decker buses that we rode on every day. They were a little wild.
Of course coming to London we thought of Harry Potter constantly. We are pretty big fans. So of course we had to go see King's Cross station.
Getting closer! It was so fun to be there!
We found it! It also had a trolley that was going through the wall!
Sad to say, we didn't get in :)
This is the actual station.
This was our "English lunch". It consisted of cucumber tuna fish sandwiches and Frijj.
These sandwiches were so good!
This is like a brownie milkshake.
Once again I couldn't take any pictures in the British Museum. This was the story of our lives here. They really don't like you to take pictures of anything it seems!
The British Library was so surreal. It had the original manuscript for "Alice in Wonderland" written in Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's own handwriting. It also had some illustrations of his. We also saw papers by Jane Austen, Leonardo Da Vinci and Mozart, in their own handwriting.
we saw the draft score from Handel's Messiah and the actual Magna Carta. It was pretty surreal. I learned also that John I who signed the Magna Carta, was also the John who was in the legend of Robin Hood. He also had a brother named Richard the Lionheart who went on the crusades. He is considered to be one of the worst monarchs ever, but because of him England eventually because only a partial monarch instead of a ruling monarch. In that regard he is considered great-but only because he was so awful that the nobles MADE him sign the Magna Carta
It is also one of the documents that inspired the Constitution of the United States.
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