Day 2 London
Oct. 5th, 2012 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoWent up to the Tower of London this morning. It was not as tall as I'd have thought for a "tower", more like a large castle-y thing. We got to see all the shinies...crown jewels and all that. But I think the best part was the raven (female named Merlin) that mugged for our tour group. Lots of photos.
We took a quick bus tour of the city. I didn't have the window seat so no photos of that. Then we stopped at Westminster Abbey. Didn't go inside though, since apparently you have to pay if you're not going in for actual worship.
Last stop before was at Buckingham. Didn't go in there either; apparently the tickets have been sold out for weeks (really?).
Lunch was at the Chinatown in London. My toothache thing started acting up just before then, so I wasn't really able to eat much. Did pop 2 pills of Aleve which kicked in later. Ugh I don't even know what's wrong. It doesn't hurt if I poke anywhere around my teeth or my gums with a toothpick. But it hurt like heck when I took a single sip of hot tea at lunch. Ice water surprisingly didn't hurt and actually (numbed?) lowered the pain. But it just came back worse than before afterwards. And yet I don't think/see anything swollen. *shrug* Eventually the two pain pills I took during lunch kicked in and the rest of the day was fine. Really need to see the dentist when I get home.
Anyway, for the afternoon the tour group pretty much split up. The tour guide offered to take whoever wanted to go to Cambridge, though there'd be an extra charge for that. The rest of the group were going to head off to the British Museum in the city, which was free admission. We went to the museum group. (A good choice in retrospect since it started raining later in the afternoon - we'd been lucky not to have caught any rain before then.) The museum had some really nice exhibits on Ancient Egypt and Greece. Got to see the actual Rosetta Stone. There was a small exhibit on China which really didn't hold much to speak of.
Our group headed back to Chinatown for dinner. And we took a taxi back to the hotel. Tomorrow we head for France, by chunnel. :)
We took a quick bus tour of the city. I didn't have the window seat so no photos of that. Then we stopped at Westminster Abbey. Didn't go inside though, since apparently you have to pay if you're not going in for actual worship.
Last stop before was at Buckingham. Didn't go in there either; apparently the tickets have been sold out for weeks (really?).
Lunch was at the Chinatown in London. My toothache thing started acting up just before then, so I wasn't really able to eat much. Did pop 2 pills of Aleve which kicked in later. Ugh I don't even know what's wrong. It doesn't hurt if I poke anywhere around my teeth or my gums with a toothpick. But it hurt like heck when I took a single sip of hot tea at lunch. Ice water surprisingly didn't hurt and actually (numbed?) lowered the pain. But it just came back worse than before afterwards. And yet I don't think/see anything swollen. *shrug* Eventually the two pain pills I took during lunch kicked in and the rest of the day was fine. Really need to see the dentist when I get home.
Anyway, for the afternoon the tour group pretty much split up. The tour guide offered to take whoever wanted to go to Cambridge, though there'd be an extra charge for that. The rest of the group were going to head off to the British Museum in the city, which was free admission. We went to the museum group. (A good choice in retrospect since it started raining later in the afternoon - we'd been lucky not to have caught any rain before then.) The museum had some really nice exhibits on Ancient Egypt and Greece. Got to see the actual Rosetta Stone. There was a small exhibit on China which really didn't hold much to speak of.
Our group headed back to Chinatown for dinner. And we took a taxi back to the hotel. Tomorrow we head for France, by chunnel. :)
