Grandma Does London

Here are highlights from a few hours of showing Grandma some of the major sites of Central London:

Church bells ringing in the City of London

 On London Bridge with Tower Bridge behind

 Here is the modern London Bridge, unimpressive to at least one tourist I've heard incredulously exclaim, "This is it!? This is London Bridge!?" Part of one older version of the bridge (and some of the houses on it) burned down in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

 Steps into the River Thames

Sophia & Grandma outside the Tower of London, where people such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both wives of Henry VIII, were executed.

 "Traitor's Gate," where prisoners entered the Tower of London via boat

 World War II museum

 

 Outside Buckingham Palace

 Near St. James' Park and Buckingham Palace

 

Kettle and tea cups: essential for any line of work in Britain!