Day 2
Monday, December 15, 1997
London! -- continued... still!!!
Okay!
Fully fed and ready to continue the London Tour '97, we head out again!
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Since it's late December, and England is fairly far north in comparison to Texas, it
gets dark quicker in the winter than I'm used to and by 4 pm it's completely pitch black
out!
But, that's okay, as everything still remains open and looks even more magical all lit up
with Christmas decorations and lights!
It's obvious that both the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. and the Texas state
capitol building in Austin are modeled after St. Paul's Cathedral.
It's very pretty and quite the sight, lit up at night.
On our way over to London Bridge, we pass a bank building that had some ruins
on display in front.
It turned out that they were from the Roman occupation times and were discovered
when the bank was being built.
Cool!
Yep... it's the famous Tower Bridge!
This picture was taken from the re-built London Bridge.
The original London Bridge (is falling down, falling down, etc...), remember, was bought and
moved, stone by stone, to Arizona.
Fools... they thought that they were buying Tower Bridge!!
Exhausted, we "squeeze" our way back to Waterloo Station, gather our luggage,
and take an "authentic" London cab to Houston Station to meet John, Marianne, and
Mark.
And now... it's time to say goodbye to Julian and head out on the next phase of this
wonderful second "English Adventure"!!!
An overnight sleeper train is waiting to take us all to Scotland!
Read on for more!!
This way for more adventures!!!!!
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