Our very clever friend Rodger booked tickets for the three of us on the London Eye, on-line, prior to leaving Calgary. Instead of being clogged up with 35 other patrons (or however many fit in one of the pods) we got to jump the queue and were reserved a pod with only one other person! We were able to walk around and gaze out in every direction, we could take photos where ever we wanted to and we didn't have to try to sneak a shot over someone else's shoulder. It's an expensive ride on a ferris wheel juiced up on steroids, but magnificent.
After the Eye we walked to the British Museum for lunch and a took a circuit through (what a museum!...the Egyptian collection is something we will never forget). Being in museum mode, we continued on to the British Library, where we saw old maps, old illuminated bibles, a copy of Magna Carta, and some lyrics written out by the Beatles! There was something for everyone.
Earlier in the day we walked the creepy streets where Jack the Ripper once lurked, as well as the original site of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It is IMPOSSIBLE to not be tripping over history here.
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