The Tower Hotel London

... I explored the Islands and Dubrovnik for nine days. Lots of ice-cream and UV rays were consumed · My cousins in London let me call their mansion home for short breaks between trips around continental Europe. Biddy and Paul's five star hotel is ...

... half way across Tower Bridge - really beautiful bridge. Cool crisp morning with sun shining. Saw remains of old Roman wall. Tower of London huge and dry moat around it beside River Thames on 8-½ acres. Admission 2 pounds each. Went on guided tour of ...

... about it. Having gotten that sorted out, we went back to the tube station and caught a train to Tower Hill, and went to the Tower of London. I'd planned to visit Tower Bridge as well, but in the end we just didn't have time. We did a tour first, with one ...

... a restaurant for dinner.  We decide on Chinese and after dinner we take the underground to Tower Hill and walk to the Tower of London.  We are early for the Ceremony of the Keys and are surprised at the number of people gathering.  I had thought that ...

... sights but the bed was too comfy.  So I finally got up and decided to brave the Tube and find my way to the Tower of London.  17 pounds later I was touring with about 50 other tourists, listening to a Yeoman brief us - and since I got there so ...

On Saturday, we took the tube to the Tower of London.  We visited the museum in the White Tower, Traitor's Gate, the Crown Jewels and the Execution Spot.  We had lunch at the cafeteria and then headed over to Westminster ...

... Faneuil Hall in Boston.  (Come to find out, that's where the Bostonian's got the idea.)  Turns out that the Tower of London is the medieval fortress of the royals made up of a bunch of buildings.  The Crown Jewels are still kept there in ...

Trip  report for July 18th to 21st is yet to be completed - too many late nights! Check back later for updates. Tower of London Jack the Ripper Dinner at ...

... to the underground station. I had purchased my ticket for King Tut for this day – poor planning on my part. 1) Tower of London and Tower Bridge were really enough for one day and 2) It was a bank holiday. In other words, the underground did not run ...

Today, Jacqui and I went on a tour with Golden Tours (Tour 241, Tower of London, Bath, and Private Viewing of Stonehenge, if you're on their website). We had to get up fairly early again because we needed to catch an 8am bus to get to the main tourbus ...

... commentary along the way, pointing out the main landmarks. We then spent a couple of interesting hours walking through the Tower of London, where we climbed several of the towers, walked through the grounds and inspected the Crown Jewels. We had lunch ...

... de lá fomos andando ate a torre pelos wharfs na margem do rio, com direito a um cafézinho no Starbucks. Optamos por visitar a Tower of London por dentro, com direito ao tour do Yeoman, visita a capela de St Peter ad Vincula, as jóias da coroa, corvos, ...

... wandered down to the Thames and got on a boat going down-creek to Greenwich. We ate lunch there, and returned to the Tower of London. Our guide was dressed as a beefeater and absolutely hilarious (well, funny). We went into the White Tower, Bloody Tower, ...

A rainy morning, but we didn't mind it. Took a Tower of London tour with a very pleasant Beefeater guard.  Traveled to Piccadilly and chose a stand-up lunch purchased from a convenience store.  We ate standing up, on the street. One of those ...

... , but Wendy has the pics and she is Skyping/screaming with her mom as we speak...we both brought computers this time!  The tower was interesting.  All I could think of was poor Ann Boylen.  Every once in a while I would shout "Off with her ...

... to Gatwick airport and from there it is easy to go by train (The Gatwick Express) straight into Victoria Station in London. Our hotel was called Monopole and is located in Sussex Gardens near Paddington Station. The hotel itself wasn't much to brag ...

... the way past the place we saw where bomb shrapnel took chunks out of some of the buildings nearby), Tower Bridge and the Tower of London (last leg of the guided tour; saw the bridge from the bank next to the Tower, I was surprised that the bridge was ...

... it quite laborious to load them and not possible to change the caption once they are loaded..... Anyway, we went to the Tower of London ( as everybody who visits London does) and it was very interesting to listen (audio tour) about its history.  ...

... we went to use the sink to wash our hands, the water was scalding!  We had to use the bathroom at the Hilton Tower Hotel, and the bathroom in their lounge there also had scalding water.  After St. Paul's, we headed over to see the ...

... this day, I took the London Tube out to South Bank and walked all along the Thames from Big Ben and Parliament to the Tower of London. I took pictures all along the way but stayed away from many of the tourist areas. December 28th, 2010 (Day 4) The day ...

... to spend my time today at the Towers of London  Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic monument in central London, on the north bank of the River Thames. It ...