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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Legend for London Pics 200-244.

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200-206 Tower of London
An ancient fortress that served the monarchs as both fortress and palace. A lot of legendary figures were imprisoned and/or executed here. It is also where the Crown Jewels are kept.

207. Beefeater
You might recognize these guys on the Gin bottles. They are the guides for the Tower of London and they are all ex-British military. They are really cool guides, very animated and have plenty of Jokes.

208. Traitor's Gate
The gate through which traitors were brought. One famous person to come through these gates was William Wallace.

209-211 Part of the Tower of London
Pic 211- Where a lot of people were hanged (or was it guillotined)

212. Beefeater Pt 2

213. Guard
One of the guards outside where the Crown Jewels were kept.

214. Chapel of St. John
Church that is part of the Tower of London

215. Crapper in the Tower

216. Model of the Tower of London

217-229 Royal Armouries
Located in the White Tower the oldest and most conspicuous building in the entire complex which houses the armouries, England’s national collection of arms and armour.
(228 “Holy shit even little Kids went into battle” not really )

230. Portrait of Henry VIII
After seeing his portrait I couldn’t get that dame Henry the Eighth song out of my head.

231. "I Knew that noose was too lose."

232. Spiral Staircase
One of many we went up and down all over Europe.

233. Another Tower Model

234. The Torture Chamber
Now it’s a gift shop. B/c it was so far down and the walls were so think no one could hear the screams outside the building. It is now a gift shop, where no one can hear you scream when you look at your bill

235. In one of the towers

236. Tower Bridge.

237. One of the towers


238. Me in one of the Towers

239. Tower Bridge.

240. Inside one of the towers

241. ?
The guide on the tour bus pointed this spot out but I have no clue why the hell I took a pic of it.

241 & 242. Monty Python
This is where Monty Python and The Flying Circus was shot.

243. Sherlock Holmes Pub

244. Ben at NightBlurry
yes, but who cares. It is also the last pic of London (at least for my first 5 days). Tomorrow (hopefully) Dublin.

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