Day sixteen in London

So today was a pretty fun day. Me and Jeff were actually supposed to go back to Oxford and then go to Warwick Castle but since it has been raining so much the past couple of days, the train stations that we needed to go to were closed because of flooding. We decided to go to the Tower of London instead.

On the way there we also stopped to take a few pictures of the Globe Theater where Shakespeare presented his famous plays. That was pretty sweet.

The Tower of London was so massive that it was pretty much an all day event. There was just so much to do and see and I made sure to take plenty of pictures.

The only part of the Tower of London I wasn’t able to get pictures of was the crown jewels. It was absolutely mind blowing to look at these crowns covered in diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds the size of my face almost. The vault we had to walk into was also filled with tons of gold and ceremonial relics from the various inaugurations of past kings and Queens.

Here are the pictures from today:



The view overlooking the Thames River.




Random sculpture.




The Millenium Bridge.



Shakespeare's Globe Theater.



St. Paul's Cathedral, the cathedral the US capital is modeled after.




St. Paul's Cathedral.




Cool shot of St. Paul's Cathedral.




The Tower of London.



Cool little stories on the walls inside the Tower of London.



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Depiction of the Scavenger's Daughter torture device.




The rack.




Torture device used to hang people by their arms and feet off the ground for days.




One of the several towers inside the Tower of London.




Another tower.




Turkish cannon seized by HMS Her Majesty's Service)




Wardrobe Tower, 12th Century.




Weapons from the arsenal of King Henry VIII.




More weapons from Kind Henry VIII.




Lots of guns.




More guns.




Even more guns.




Models of the horses from various Kings of England.




Suit of armor from one of the kings. People were at least a foot shorter on average back then.




Suit of armor from John the Giant. It's in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest and tallest suit of armor, standing at 6 feet, 9 inches tall. Holy crap.




Another Guinnes world record for the smallest suit of armor standing at 37 inches, from a knight who was a dwarf.




Scary looking weapons. The one with the super long spikes is called a Spanish Morning Star.




Spears.




Mini cannons.




The church inside the Tower of London.




Royal armor for the king's horses.




Royal body armor for the king's horses.




Armor of the Earl of Worchester.



More armor.




Armor for King Charles I. I wish you could see the detail of the armor. It's covered in fine engravings.




Um... wow... armor for King Henry VIII. You can see that he was a little proud of certain parts of his body...




Armor of horse and knight.




Freakishly huge cannon balls.




Freakishly huge cannon that launches freakishly huge cannon balls.




More cannons.




40 foot well inside one of the towers.




A raven.




Another raven.




Another raven.




Raven in mid-flight.




I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside.




The haunted Bloody Tower of London.




The Portcullis.




The Portcullis.




Traitor's Gate.




Bedroom of King Henry III.




Stained glass windows above the altar in King Henry III's bedroom.




Where King Henry III died.




Shot of a huge bridge.


More pictures to come. Bye bye for now. I miss you all.

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