London

From Nottingham we took a train to London, where on the first day we saw Big Ben, Parliament and Westminster Abbey (where Queen Elizabeth's tomb was!). We then took a boat ride along the Thames river.




The next day we went to a recreation of Shakespeare's Globe theater and saw Romeo and Juliet. It was SUPER awesome, and despite being a tragedy, the actors were really funny.



The next day we went to Bloomsbury and saw the British Library, which holds the Magna Carta, the Gutenberg Bible, a piece of paper written by Shakespeare and one of Virginia Woolf's handwritten notebooks containing Mrs. Dalloway. After that we went to the location of my favorite British show ever, Black Books. Then we went to the British Museum, which among a million awesome things had the Rosetta Stone. NUTS!



The next day we went to Buckingham Palace. After that we mostly milled around.


Here's a helpful sign to remind tourists which way to look when crossing the road: