London Day 4 - Tower and a trap

Stonehenge

Monday in London started early for Teresa as she left for a morning tour of Stonehenge. Elaine and I decided to use this time to head to the National Gallery to check out the art Teresa looked at a couple days earlier. The National Gallery contains mainly European art and they have a lot of it! Overwhelmed by the amount of art to see we decided to take the free guided tour which highlight various pieces from certain time periods. The tour was great and I would recommend it if you had an hour to spare.

National Gallary

The afternoon was spent at the Tower of London where we meet up with Teresa later that day. The Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror as a fortress stronghold. It's famous for the bloody tower where many prisoners were held and for housing the crown jewels. Elaine and I joined the free guided tour at the tower which was lead by a yeoman warder (aka beefeater). The tour was excellent as he told us stories of murder, executions and history of the place. After the tour we went to see the crown jewels which were amazing. I was surprised that they display the real crown jewels and I was expecting to see more guards and cameras. I suspect they were there but undercover.

The Tower

Me and a Yeoman

Baby suit of Arms

Our evening was spent attending a play in the west end. We went to see Mousetrap, the longest running play. It's a murder mystery written by Agatha Christie and it has been running for 59 years. The play was an interesting mix of romance, comedy, drama. Not sure if all those things fix though and the play did seem a bit dated. I do love a good mystery though and this one had me thinking. After the play we headed back to our pub, the Dickens to have some Pims. This time they actually had some in stock. The Pims was slightly different to how I make it, instead of cucumbers it had strawberries. Nevertheless, it was good. We then got kicked out after 11.15pm. I guess the pubs there close at 11pm but they were kind enough to let us stay an extra 15 mins!

Pims o'clock