Tourist Thursday is Back!

Its been a while since Kevin and I have gotten to go down in London and do our Tourist Thursday activities! But we finally got to again this week! Today we went down to the Museum of London which goes over the history of London, even before London existed. They had skeletons pieces of Woolly Mammoths that they found in the area to pre-historic tools to generalized native village layouts that all dated back before London was official. The museum also exhibited various styles of clothing that was use over a century ago to a reconstructed town. 

Along with all the exhibits, the museum is located right next to the one of the only pieces left of the ancient London Wall.The London Wall was built during the Roman Empire (London at this point was call Londonium or something like that) around the 2nd century. It was built around the entire city and used the Thames River as one of the walls as well. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the city was pretty much deserted and the wall began to deteriorate for 400 years. Once civilization returned to the area, the Wall faced many challenges. It survived events such as the Great London Fire of 1666. However, it did not survive the bombings of World War two which lead to most of its destruction.

(I didn't know any of this before the museum so here are some links for information for you guys as well!! London Wall, The Great Fire).

After the Museum, we walked down to St. Paul's Cathedral to take a look around since we were in the area. The cathedral was huge! I was able to take plenty of photos from outside, however once you got through the doors of the church they immediately wanted £ 14 per person (roughly around 21 dollars) to take a look around, so we left. But I did manage to snap a few (secret) shots before walking out!

After we that we headed up a few blocks and ate an Italian Pizza place and headed home for the evening.

On a side-note, yesterday after my history class I began my spring break! And its 2 weeks long!  SO there will hopefully be lots of adventuring next week in London and there will be lots of blogs to post!