London Day 1 Cont'd

This is one of my new favorite pictures. It's spray-painted everywhere in the subway and the automated lady on the subway says it about a hundred times at each stop, I swear. Mind the Gap!

Today (as I mentioned in the earlier post) I was needing to kill some time before the hostel check-in so I jumped on the tube and ended up by accident at the London Bridge Subway Stop. So I got out and sure enough some really cool stuff to see including London Bridge, Tower Bridge, some old ship, lots of downtown skyline buildings as well as the Tower of London in the background and some other buildings I've yet to identify. So this will warant further exploration just today I was tired, feeling dirty and and wanted to get back to the hostel so I snapped a few quick pics and that was that. My cousin Angie told me about an old boat that you can tour, and that was there too! It was shut down for renovations when she was here, but it's there. I'll go inside of it when I have more time another day.


The Swiss Re Headquarters. Don't know what
that is yet, but what a cool egg shaped building!!!







That's the Tower of London behind those trees.
That's going to be one of our class excursions so I'll leave that for later!














This is the famous Tower Bridge. It was built from 1886-1896.
One of the most famous landmarks in London.







I hope to get This is the actual London Bridge built in 1973
closer soon to get some better close-up pics of it. See the inscription below


























































Tonight I wanted to find this cool bar I had been told about called Kudos. It's supposed to be really hip and trendy and it's in the heart of London. So I went online to the London Travel website and it told me to get off on the Charing Cross station. So I did.... Wow... first of all this is the town of Westminster and it's go so much going on right when you get off the tube. The National Galleries are here, Trafalgar Square, The Benjamin Franklin Home (I'll have to get back to you on that one... it confused me a little.) Also you can even see a pic of Big Ben in the distance, very very close. So it was late afternoon and I was hungry. I proceeded to the restarurant above - Ciao. This was a cute little Italian food and Gillati restaraunt. I had dinner there and then proceeded to find Kudos. It was a cool bar. I had a couple of drinks and headed back to the hostel. But tomorrow... tomorrow I plan on devoting the day to Westminster and Trafalgar Square area. So expect pictures and updates tomorrow!