Hi there!
The past few weeks have been incredible. About a week after we got back from Barcelona, Chris’ parents arrived in London. I had just finished my placement at HarperCollins the day before they arrived, so Chris took the day off and we went to meet them at the airport. We found the apartment they’d rented for the week (conveniently located just a few blocks from our flat here in north London), dropped off their luggage and grabbed some lunch at The Spoke restaurant/pub/cafe that takes up the ground floor of our apartment building. After an afternoon nap we headed to Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square for dinner at Bella Italia, and then we took a walk down Regent St. to Oxford St. In the following days we visited Greenwich and the Maritime Museum and The Queen’s House there, the London Transport Museum, Regent’s Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace, St. James’s Park, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s…and a whole bunch of other places I’m surely forgetting. Together they saw Billy Elliot (highly recommended), Westminster Abbey, the Brunel Museum…and more. After the week in London, they headed off to Belgium and France for a war tour, seeing places Chris’ great-grandfather had been in during WWI. It was wonderful having them here, and we were very sad to see them go. 😦
So let’s start with some photos from their visit!
Trafalgar Square:
St. Pauls from the rooftop terrace of One New Change:
Inside of tube carriage from about 1890, at the London Transport Museum:
Old London Underground buses:
London Underground signage from WWII:
The ceiling of the British Museum:
St. James’s Park with the London Eye in the background:
Buckingham Palace:
Buckingham Palace:
The gowns of Queen Elizabeth II, on display at Kensington Palace:
Princess Diana’s gowns, at Kensington Palace:
900-year-old tapestry in the king’s apartments at Kensington Palace:
Queen Victoria’s wedding gown, at Kensington Palace:
Good luck with door frames:
Queen Victoria’s Crystal Palace:
Westminster Abbey:
Westminster Abbey and Chris’ eyebrows:
Greenwich! Former naval college:
Looking at the Thames and the Royal Naval College from The Queen’s House:
The Queen’s House, Greenwich:
The Queen’s House, the Royal Naval College, and London from the Royal Observatory:
My boy Big Ben:
Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament:
Some views of London from the London Eye!:
Tower Bridge going up:
Tower of London:
The Monument (I don’t have a picture of the outside of it, so click that link to see), dedicated to the Great Fire of 1666, over 300 steps to the top:
From the top of The Monument:
Regent Street from Piccadilly Circus:
Regent St. again:
Covent Garden:
That’s all I can do for now! Tune in next time for pictures of Mom’s visit, and updates about what’s going on with us!
Meg xoxoxo
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