Downtown London Weekend

Royce: We end up in downtown London fairly frequently for work and on our way to particular sights but we really have not spent much time doing the tourist sights since our first visit to London in June. We decided to just spend the weekend in London checking some things out. Our first stop was the "Gherkin Tower" and the Tower Bridge. The bridge really is beautiful. The neighborhood around Tower Bridge has a lot of antique shops and great Thames riverfront property. We toured some antique shops and had Starbucks and then rode the Underground system to the Millenium Eye.

The ride on the Eye http://www.londoneye.com/ really helped my understanding of the city better. London is very confusing from street level but a 30 minute ride on a 450 ft ferris wheel cleared things up for me. We spent the rest of the day touring some "boot sales" (swap meets basically) and hitting the classic sights along the Thames like Big Ben and the Parliament Building, Westminster Abbey, and James Bond's office at MI6. We finished the day with yet another great Indian meal in London.
















Peering out of the "Eye"
















April trying to not look like a tourist

Us on the Eye

Me across the Thames from MI6

Pub night in London