Having rested for 2 days, we are ready to venture into Central London! Our cousin lives in Taddington, which is in the western side of London. It takes about an hour to ride public transit out into the City.
We took the over-ground railway from Taddington to Waterloo.From the Waterloo train station, we passed by the London Eye and arrived on the Westminster Bridge. The kids and I got separated while we were taking photos. We reunited on one side of the bridge, and took a selfie of the Big Ben Tower and the Parliament Buildings.Queen Boudica’s statue, with the London Eye in the backgroundThe façade of the Westminster AbbeyUnlike in the summer time, where the changing of the guard at the Buckingham Palace takes place daily, in the winter time it only happens every other day (when it is not raining). We are thankful that it coincides with the day we visited, and it was not raining.The Buckingham Palace, the official royal residence of King Charles IIIThe Westminster Abbey and the Dean’s YardThe Dean’s YardThe courtyard of Westminster AbbeyWe hopped on the double decker bus and rode through Whitehall, the historic road known for its government buildings.The Regent Street, lined with upscale shopsWe had Indian food on the Carnaby StreetDr John Snow proved the concept of germs spreading through the handle of this water pump became the first epidemiologist in the world.The Oxford StreetA giant Hulk inside a souvenir storeThe British MuseumThe Rosetta StoneA temple taken from Xanthos, Turkey, where we visited in the Fall of 2022. It was produced by the Lycian civilization in the 1st century AD, heavily influenced by the Greek civilization.A giant Easter Island moai stone statueEgyptian paintingsOn Day 4, we took the Tube out to Central London. Carina ate her breakfast inside the Tube car.The Tower of LondonWe arrived in the Tower Bridge just in time to see the 11:15am lifting of the bridge to allow a sightseeing boat to pass through.The All Hallows by the Tower, the oldest church in the City of LondonThere is a museum in the undercroft of the Church that displays the Roman-era artefacts.A model of the Roman-era ‘Londonium’A Roman-era mosaic paved roadWe had lunch next to the St Paul CathedralThe facade of the St Paul Cathedral
