London Day 5 July 3


Today we visited the Tower of London.  We thought we would go for an early start and spend a few hours and then move on to other sights, but managed to leave as the doors were closing at 5.30.  This place is absolutely AMAZING.  We had a wonderful guide,  a 'Beefeater' who told us some of the history of the Tower.   This Tower was erected in 1066 and completed in 1078, and is still the home today of the Crown Jewels.  We were able to go through the vault and see the actual jewels,  which was just unbelievable to think we were standing right in front of these awesome crowns and jewels which were absolutely laden with massive gems and gold, one even had a 730 carat diamond set amongst its masses of other huge gems.  After going through the vault we made our way through the buildings of the Tower, which house for the major part, all original displays.  Again it was quite amazing to think we were standing right in front of the armour etc worn by Henry V111 and other kings, queens and nobility.

London Tower



Part of the Tower of London

Another one of the buildings at the Tower of London

Some of the English Kings and their swords

The boys were impressed by this guys armour

Reinactment of Henry V111

Leaving the Tower- they are happy

On the way to the Tower Bridge

View from the Tower across to the Tower Bridge

Walking over Tower Bridge

Changing of the Guards

One of the Towers

Some Armoury

The largest and the smallest

One of the tunnels

   

Boys with our guide, a very knowledgeable 'Beefeater'.

After leaving the Tower we headed over the Tower Bridge for a walk and headed on back to our unit.
The days are getting away really quickly and tomorrow is our last day before heading off on our tour around the UK.
Tomorrow we are heading out to the London Eye and hopefully to check out a couple of the Museums and maybe even Harrods.