From Buckingham Palace, Fleet Street, the London Eye to the Tower of London.
More stories. Stories that give us insight into humanity and its light and dark.
Crows at Tower of London...
Crows at Tower of London...
Fleet Street started as part of a Roman road that led from the west side of "Londinium," mentioned by Henry III (1228) and later referred to as ‘a dangerously muddy track.’ Fleet Street or "Ink Street" has its origin in the world of printing. 1440... the revolutionary year of the printing press led the way for a man called Wynkyn de Worde who had a press in a house near Westminster Abbey. Soon this infamous street, also known because of Sweeny Todd's meat pies and dangerous highwaymen, became the hub of map making, newspaper printing and book publishing (Hidden-London.com.)
Literally, stories were made here--those of imagination and real life.
Or maybe a bit of both.
Onto Parliament Square Garden--lined by those whose stories have changed the world. Mandela. Gandhi. Churchill. And the first female hero to be added--suffragette Milicent Fawcett (about time...)
A story told with a chip. Salty and crunchy family time amongst the ancient. Poor Big Ben is all covered up... but we'll see him in a few years (4 I think?)
We make new memories and take 20,000 steps across London.
A bird's eye view from the London Eye is spectacular. If only our winged friends could talk and tell us what they see. The joys, the sorrows, the surprises. For us, it is a landscape of beauty and excitement and something new. The thrill of stepping out of one's box and into a new place.
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