The War Rooms and the Churchill Museum was very interesting – more so than Amy originally expected. After spending too short of a time at the museum, we rushed off to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guards – along with several thousand of our closest friends! It was fun to see the marching band and the guards in their red uniforms and beaver hats, but other than that, it was too far away to see anything so was kind of a let-down sadly.
We did go through the Royal Mews and and the state rooms of the Buckingham Palace – it was striking how opulent and ostentatious the royal rooms, possessions and carriages are (such as the all gold carriage used in the coronation). After that, we went to the St. Paul’s cathedral and hoisted ourselves up the 500'ish steps to experience the whispering gallery and the dome – very tiring and at times extremely hot and claustrophobic. The whispering gallery was really neat how you could hear a whisper across the dome from one end to the other – but only if you used the right technique!
After St. Paul’s, we supped in a restaurant pub called the “Counting House” from Rick Steves’ recommendation. The food was quite good (Kelli had a traditional dinner called “Bangers and Mash” which is vegetarian sausages and mashed potatoes, while the rest of us had fish & chips and a shepherd’s pie-like meal).
To finish off the long day of aching feet and exhaustion, we end to “Shakespeare’s Globe” to see “As You Like It,” a Shakespearean play – it was something we all agreed was very fun and entertaining – even if we only understood every third word! :)
No trip to London would be complete without at picture in a signature red telephone booth (with the Westminster Abbey in the background)
The marching band of the Buckingham Palace during the changing of the guard
The front of St. Paul's cathedral
Shakespeare's Globe where we went to the play - the only thatched roof left in London!
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