What I Ate in Europe: A Lot of Walking

Day 3 in London: We went exploring.

Down, down, down the escalators of the tube...

Picnic lunch in the park -- celery sticks, carrots, dip, cut up baguette, butter stashed from breakfast, and 5 kinds of cheddar cheese stuck together somehow.

And of course we didn't have a butter knife; but the carrot sticks worked nicely too.

The park was an interesting place to sit and eat: everybody there had suits, work clothes, fancy shoes and dresses - it felt like walking into a wedding party and we were the odd ducks!

Across from the park was the Tower of London. They had some re-enactors there doing various things. We didn't get the tour but it was kind of cool to see it from the outside.

Luckily the tower bridge didn't cost any money. It's an attractive bridge -- kind of looks like Cinderella's castle.

We followed the pathway beyond the bridge with pawprints, not fully knowing where it would lead to... Leah said maybe a pet store. ;)

Really it just led us to the walk along the river, down to the London Bridge and beyond. It was a nice walk with restaurants and some bigger centers, although the London Bridge was really not a must-see...

Wow, what an exciting bridge. Leah (who lives in Arizona) says the original bridge was actually disassembled and moved to Arizona, which checks out, and is incredibly weird.

This place looked really, really cool... Straight out of the 1600s, and we think it's the real Leaky Cauldron from Harry Potter. It's located under a bridge along the River Thames.

Plaque.

We stumbled upon a church; of course I had to go inside. I'm sure Leah's very sick of it by now, my insisting to go into every cool church/cathedral we stumble upon... This was our first, though. I don't remember the name of it. They had one cool thing to see at least, a labeled excavation site with a stone coffin (pictured below). They also had a gift shop with a creepy monk statue in the window which didn't photograph very well (see above).