A week in London

Last week we spent five days in London with my Grandma and Grandpa. Here are some pictures I took of the things we saw there:

Hampton Court Palace

A yale at the front entrance of Hampton Court Palace

Tudor chimneys at Hampton Court

Westminster Abbey

The inside of Westminster Abbey (before I found out that you're not meant to take photos!)

Big Ben

The great vine, the world's largest and oldest vine in Hampton Court Palace

The old roman wall around London

With Grandma and Grandpa at the Tower of London

A raven at the Tower of London

A grey heron at St James's park

An old London bus

Nelson's column at Trafalgar square

A lion at Trafalgar square

The Rosetta stone, a world famous stone that became the key to deciphering heiroglyphs and unlocking the secrets of ancient Egypt in the British museum

A copy of  Cyrus prism the British museum (the real one was on display in America)

A neolithic ceremonial helmet, made out of a deer's skull and antlers at the British museum

The entrance to a Greek temple, rebuilt from fragments and moved to the British museum

A robin red-breast at Kensington Palace

A pteranodon at the Natural History museum

A lammergeier at the Natural History Museum

A fossil of an ichthyosaur giving birth, at the Natural History Museum

A fossil of an ichtyosaur, at the Natural History Museum

A stuffed (and faded) thylacine, at the Natural History Museum

A giant anteater, at the Natural History Museum

The changing of the guard, at Buckingham Palace

The gates of Buckingham Palace

An Aztec carving of a double-headed snake, at the British Museum

An Aztec rattle-snake carving, at the British Museum

A fox that was in the back garden of the place where we were staying

A diagram of how African slaves were fitted into the ships used in the slave trade, at the Museum of London (Docklands)



London was great!