london day 3

We started the day with one of those crazy donuts....

So our third day we decided to hump back to Buckingham Palace to see the formal changing of the guard.  It's quite the process that included two little parades with their marching bands leading the replacements from the barracks to the palace.  After 45 minutes my feet were killing me and we needed to get to the tower of London ....that happened to be over an hour's walk....so we decided to take one of the famous London black cabs.  They are huge inside and it takes a driver 3 years of training and testing to get a license.  Well worth the experience....our driver Terry was a great source of local knowledge....of what we could understand....his accent was crazy hard!

 

The Tower of London (officially known as "His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London") was outstanding.  We started with an overall tour from a Beefeater.  Very fun and interesting.  We also took the audio tour and walked the place.  We saw where many beheadings happened and the crown jewels but the most beautiful part of the place was the private abbey/chapel.  

Then we wanted to take a look at London Bridge.  It was magnificent....until we realized we were looking at the Tower of London.....not London Bridge.  OK…… so where is the London Bridge? we asked.  Dumb Americans.....London Bridge is just some old bridge....nothing special.  Quite like us finding out the Golden State Bridge is not gold but red....we were humbled by our lack of basic London knowledge.

 

We took a long walk back on the river walk....it was really nice....we actually crossed back over to our side of the river on the London bridge....lol.

We needed to have a quick dinner.  We stopped in at Wagamama,  It was fine....not enough spices and flavor for an Asian bowl place,  We then walked back up Trafalgar Square to see Jersey Boys at the Trafalgar Theater.  It was a great show, a Small theater....just like Broadway.

 

We ended our day by getting a few more of those crazy donuts....they were for our trip the next day though!