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Spring Break Trip 3/6 - London Travel & Sightseeing

London – Travel & Sights

Get to the sights!
Underground – King’s Cross
Underground – Paddington Station

See the Sights!
London Tower & Bloody Tower
London Eye
Big Ben / Parliament
Buckingham Palace
221 B Baker Street
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
National Portrait Gallery
The Regents Park
British Museum
Little Venice
OOC

Or go visit London for hotel and shopping
Or go visit Stonehenge and Glastonbury

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It's really a subway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Cross_railway_station). Don't let them confuse you with quaint yet incorrect terms.

Paddington Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_Station) really seems like it should be full of bears. Wearing wee rainhats!

Tour (http://www.toweroflondontour.com/) the tower (http://flickr.com/photos/tags/toweroflondon/clusters/london-england-uk/).

Really big advertisement (http://www.londoneye.com/) for British Airways.

Fun fact! Big Ben (http://flickr.com/photos/tags/bigben/clusters/london-england-parliament/) is actually the name of the prinicpal bell inside the tower. So the whole thing should be called Big Ben's crib.

Hang with the Queen (http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page555.asp)!

Elementary, my dear Watson (http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/).

Personally, this creeps me out. But whatever floats your boat. Or flaxes your wax (http://www.madame-tussauds.co.uk/), as the case may be.

Fun fact! The smallest portrait here (http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp) is barely larger than a thumbnail. Wouldn't it be awesome if it was actually a picture of a thumbnail?!

You can play loads of sports here (http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/parks/regents_park/). All vastly inferior to a good game of basketball, but when in Rome...

Be sure to visit their North America (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/world/americas/north/north.html) exhibit if you're feeling homesick!

Is it full of little venetians (http://www.offtolondon.com/littlevenice.html)?

This icon is a cartoon. Also makes me laugh.

Angela shivered inside her jacket as she joined the line for the Twoer.

Even early, it was a very, very long line.

She sipped at her coffee and tried to peer ahead to the entrance gate.

"How long do you think we'll have to wait?" Marty asked as he flipped up the collar on his coat to protect his neck.

He was also regretting not getting a cup of coffee when he had the chance.

"Not sure?" Angela said, hopping a little. "We're moving, anyhow. Maybe 15 minutes?"

"You cold? Here. You should have worn a scarf," Marty said as he took off his scarf and began to tie it around Angela's neck.

[ooc: I'm a scarf-modder. omg]

"I was just trying to see," Angela protested, but not very hard, because the scarf did feel good. "But thank you. Oh, look, they're letting in the whole big group in front of us at once."

"Maybe we sneak in with them," Marty said moving foward with the group. His hand might have slipped down to the small of Angela's back as he moved forward.

"Maybe we do," Angela agreed, glancing at the clerk waving the group ahead. "We can look casual, right?"

She might have leaned against him as they walked ahead. After all, it is pretty cold.

Unforunately the guard put up the velvet rope right before they could enter. "Oh well, at least we're next," Marty sighed as he slipped his arm around Angela's waist and looking up at the building in front of them. "Is there anything else you want to do today?"

"I'm not sure what we'll have time for," Angela said. "Did Parker talk to you about the thing that girl told me at the Watchers' HQ? I think I forgot to tell you last night."

"Girl? No I was poking through some watcher journals last night and must have missed it. Who did you run into?" Marty asked.

"Some girl called Amanda from Sunnydale. I guess she works there, or something. She said this old watcher, Roger Wyndam-Pryce, had taken most of the good books to his house. Which is kind of typical," Angela sighed.

"Anyhow, we're supposed to try to find those books today. Parker'll probably be around when we get back to the hotel. I have no idea if there's a plan or what."

The velvet rope comes up, and they are waved through to the ticket booth. "Two students, please?" Angela told the attendant.

A young woman in period garb is sitting in a window atop the Bloody Tower.

She looks down on the young couple entering the grounds while strumming a lute.

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Spring Break Trip 3/6 - London Travel & Sightseeing

3/6 - Underground - King's Cross

3/6 - Underground - Paddington Station

3/6 - Tower of London - Bloody Tower

3/6 - London Eye

3/6 - Big Ben / Parliment

3/6 - Buckingham Palace

3/6 - 221 B Baker Street

3/6 - Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

3/6 - National Portrait Gallery

3/6 - The Regents Park

3/6 - British Museum

3/6 - Little Venice

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