London’s National History Museum is an awesome place.  It’s an amazing building, inside and out.  It’s got a huge collection of educational and entertaining exhibits to see.  And admission is free.  Now, we did have to stand for an hour in the rain to get in.  But, that’s our fault for not getting out of bed until late.  Live and learn.

When we entered this room, I said, “I want to get up there!” for a picture.  We went up the stairs and down some hallways to get to this vantage point. Sure enough, it was a great view of the giant interior front room of the museum.

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So I got photo-bombed (sort of) … but it turned out well!

Just in case you didn’t know, the London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel that offers great views of the city.  It’s the most popular tourist attraction in the United Kindom.  I was taking lots of pictures – including one of Parliament (http://adventureswithandrea.com/2013/08/london-parliament/).  I took this photo of one of the pods and a couple of kids decided to make themselves the focus.  Ok – cool.  The Eye is all about tourism anyway.

(You’ll see a bigger version here – http://www.briansart.com/Locations/London/i-mwvDxjh where you can see the two guys giving the peace sign).

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Another icon of London is Tower Bridge.  Completed in 1984, it was built with a raising middle section to allow tall ships to pass.

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And now on to London!  What an amazing city.  One of the first things we did was see great views from the London Eye.  That’s how I got this picture of the Parliament building with the famous Big Ben clock tower.  The iconic red double decker buses are crossing the Thames river.  The rain even held off – for now.  What a great start to a London Vacation.

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