Exploring London - day 3

In the morning I visited the Guards' museum and got out just in time for the preparation of the changing of the guards

Inspection

 

The musicians warming up...

 

...and on the march

 

Buckingham Palace

I then went to the London Museum

English fashion 100 BC

Model of an Elizabethan era theatre

London taxi from 1908

 

The Lord Mayors state coach from 1757

That´s all folks. More pictures only after my next trip which hopefully won't be too far in the future.

Exploring London - day 2

The Natural History Museum

 Even the windows are nicely sculpted

 

The Main Hall

The porter

 

 A human ancestor? The ground sloth

 

They have many dinosaur skeletons...

 

...and some live ones

 

Beautiful stones

 

There was a special exhibition of live exotic butterflies

On my way to St. James's Park I passed by the Guards' barracks where they exercised

 

St. James's Park

Westminster Abbey where I attended the Evensong. Even more impressive on the inside

That "other" Big Ben

Exploring London - day 1

Here are some impressions from my wanderings in London:

Not sure if Freddie Mercury or Freddie Gold

Outside the British Museum

Grumpy Horus is grumpy

A Greek Tomb

The world-famous Rosetta Stone

The Royal Gold Cup

A Roman Mosaic, found in Dorset, England

It was Mummy-Day at the British Museum

After that I took a longer tour (I´d rather say Odyssey, thanks to the London Bus system) to a nice little spot you might recognize:

You don´t recognize it?

How about now?

Well, then read for yourself

And from the side...

The building to the left where they do rehearsals

Inside the church. Can you believe that this is home to one of the best choirs on earth?

And a bit closer

That´s all for now folks, hope you enjoyed the trip. The next post will be up shortly