06/04/18 - Exploring the Tower of London

I think this is the first pub we stayed at, the other day

British fire truck

Can you imagine working in this tiny little booth?

Heading down to the underground

Riding the Underground

Hey it's the Shard

I was grateful for these signs reminding people who aren't used to drive-on-the-left countries

Hey we made it!

It's the Tower of London!

And some sort of crazy glass egg!

Weird chairs

Those are some deep windows

Got my ticket

Slush Puppie!!

Don't worry, the stone lions are very slow

I think this is a moat

Well that's a tower, is the the towel?

This stuff is old

The Shard feels even more modern when in the Tower of London

Waiting for our tour

Topaz is ready for the tour to start

Our Yeoman tourguide was something else

Talking about the history of the tower

Our tour group

Piling in

"And if you look over there.. it's more really old stuff"

That's a lot of people per group

Crown Jewels, neat. Also, "way out" instead of "exit" is strange

Listening to our Beefeater guide

Don't hang out in Bloody Tower

Old rocks

Topaz is learning

Cool archways

Old crumbly walls

The White Tower. This apparently counted as a tower back in the day

Site of the old gate

Big raven

Lots of old buildings

I wasn't listening all that closely, but they may have said the Queen stayed or stays in one of these houses? I don't know. There are guards though

Big clock

Our guide liked to punctuate sentences with sudden unexpected yelling. It kept us on our toes

Tragedy

Modern guards

Fancy gun

This would fit in on a Minecraft server

It's that old crumbly wall again

Weird swoopy fence

The ravens!

Another angle on the White Tower

Old alley

Booooo, no photos allowed. I assume it's because they don't want people lingering but I can shoot and move!

Old land new

Looking out into the modern world

Hello

Armor!

I probably should have written down who wore all this armor but whatever

Chunky dude

Lots of armor

Fancy gloves

I think it was the pole that killed him

This horse is FREAKING OUT

Can you imagine the pinches you'd get wearing this?

Saber from Fate would be a fan

Old timey books

The king's private church

I think this is that book from Gummi Bears

Oh no, sea ponies!

Topaz and the original blockchain

Old timey guns

This isn't even that old! It's just a fancy gun!

Narrow hallways

Scale model of the compound

Ye Olde Kinect

More old/new. That's a weird building

I think this was to represent people who were executed here?

Guards!

I wonder how much longer this wall can last

Wandering around between the walls

I think these windows are set up to be able to shoot out of without getting shot

Inside the walls

A recreation of some king's bedroom

Narrow staircases

Big door

Fancy king

More fancy ceilings

I've heard dubious things about the structural integrity of this bridge

Wide angle shots are handy for getting a lot of the compound all at once

Don't use this on an iPad

Chess has been popular for a while

Hello

Probably

Well, tour's complete and we're back outisde!

Topaz and I had fun at the Tower of London!