LONDON DAY 2

Today we went into London and had to decide if we were going to watch the changing of the guard are go over to Abbey Road and have our picture made.  The first picture tells you what we did.  There were lots of people there doing the same thing so we all swapped out who took the pictures and who got their pictures taken.  It was too cold to take our shoes off.  This was really pretty much fun.  We also went to The British Museum and The Tower of London, had a Guinness in a Pub, went for a ride on a double decker bus, and ran out of gas about 7:30, had supper, went to the hotel.  We only have one set of clean clothes left after a month so we have to come home tomorrow.  Fly home in the morning at 9:30 and will be in Birmingham tomorrow night.  Back to Canyon on Friday.

We are glad you came on the trip with us.

I THINK THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF THE TRIP

Easter Island

EGYPTIAN WITH THE ORIGINAL PAINT AFTER A FEW THOUSAND YEARS

Asyrian 

The Rosetta stone (BEATS PAPER IN ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS)

THE EGYPTIANS THOUGHT THE DUNG BEETLE WAS SPECIAL

THIS STUFF IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE PARTHANON

ASYRIAN

MORE STUFF STOLEN FROM THE PARTHENON

16TH CENTURY JAPANESSE SWORD AND ARMOUR 

WHITE TOWER OF LONDON

ARMOUR FOR 6'8" MAN

IF THE KING DIDN'T LIKE YOU

CANNON WITH 12" BORE

WHERE THE CROWN JEWELS A KEPT

THE GUARDS AT THE TOWER OF LONDON

THIS GUY LOOKED TO BE ABOUT 12

BETTER LIGHT ON BIG BEN

LONDON

Today we drove from the Cotswolds to London.  We turned in our rental car and took "The Tube" into London.  We saw Big Ben and The London Eye (a really big Ferris Wheel.  We went to Trafalgar Square, St James Park, #10 Downing Street, Piccadilly Circus and The West End Theatre district.  We went to the Criterion Theatre on Piccadilly Circus and saw a great comedy "The 39 Steps"; a remake of the Hitchcock thriller.  This play was on Broadway for 771 performances.  It closed in 2010 and was on of the longest running plays, on Broadway, in years.  It was great and imaginative.  We took the tube back to our hotel and got in about 11:30.  We are sleepy and going to bed.

Check back tomorrow for more from London.  This was a Griswold family vacation day..........remember the Grand Canyon.  We saw all these places after 2:30 and walked to each location.  I'm going to bed.  Last day of our trip is tomorrow.  I am hoping to make it home in time to see The Eagles Baseball Team beat WF Rider on Friday.

What its like to drive on the wrong side of the car and the wrong side of the road

Big Ben

Nonette and the London Eye and the Thames River

The London Eye is made just like a bicycle wheel.

The house where Ben Franklin lived while in London

The monument at Trafalgar Square

Big Ben from Trafalgar Square

Nonette in front of The National Gallery

The very photogenic Nonette in St. James Park

Piccadilly Circus

The guys with machine guns not letting us go to #10 Downing Street.

Nonette outside the theatre before we saw The 39 Steps

A clandestin picture in The Criterion Theatre that was built in 1878.

Taking the tube to our hotel......."MIND THE GAP"

ARMSCOTE OUR HOME VILLAGE

Today we got up and went to Chipping Campden and went to The Baptist Church.  This was the first Baptist church we have come across in our travels.

They were very friendly and they made us feel very welcome.  It was a very good service, with about two hundred people in attendance, and it was about an hour and forty five minutes which would have been a little long in Canyon, America.  After church we looked around Chipping Campden for a while then we went to Broadway a very pretty little village.  We came home to Armscote where our B&B is and walked around this afternoon.  There may be a hundred people living in this little village but it is beautiful.

All the pictures today are of our B&B Willow Corner and the Village of Armscote.  The house, that is our B&B is 350 years old.  The very last picture is of the Baptist Church we went to this morning.

Some fat guy in the front yard

The living room.  Note the beam 5'8" off the floor.

The Dining Area

The front garden

The Building with its thatched roof.

A thatch roof barn

Nonette in front of one of the beautiful old houses

Many of the trees are flowering now

Another pretty old house

Walking down the lane.  Two cars are expected to meet and pass on this road.

A happy couple enjoying the sunshine in the front garden

Even these horses have a thatched roof.

One of the pretty farm fields outside the village

The Baptist Church at Chipping Campden and the gentleman that greeted us.

HISTORIC RACING ACTION SHOTS

Here are some action shots from todays Historic Races at Silverston.  It was overcast, and having no knowledge of the track, I just had to try to find a good vantage point with the least obstructed view.  Click on the pictures to view larger images.  Enjoy the pictures.

This Mustang is so clear because it is going so slow.

The Corvette was only a little faster than the Mustang

Lotus Elan just out leans the TR 4

Jag and Cobra

The little guys peddling as fast as they could

This little TVR with a Ford Small Block won this class.

356

Jags

This is how this class finished Morgan 1, TVR 2, 240 Z  3.

His wife is getting a new engine for her birthday.

How about these paint schemes.

Beautiful old Porsche

This Lotus is smooth.