Friday, May 11, 2012

Day 4 in London

Off on our own again in London. We headed to the London Aquarium by the famous Underground Metro system. Very easy to navigate, very clean and very friendly people with answers to our questions.

I tried to show how steep the descent into the Metro system is here. We went down FOUR levels similar to this! How far below London were we? 


 This is the Metro Station right next to our hotel of the same name. Very colorful!


The Aquarium is located right next to the London Eye. It is a great teaching aquarium, but the Boston and Monterey Aquariums are much more spectacular.


This Ray kept coming right up to me, closer and closer with his mouth open. I assumed he was hoping I was going to feed him. This was not a touch pool. Below: Beautiful crocodile.


Next we took a little walk through Hyde Park near the Marble Arch and our hotel. This Horse statue weighs 6 tons, is a 27 feet tall, half inch thick, bronze Marwari Horse Head sculpture by Nic Fiddian-Green.


 These guys kept a close eye on us as we ate lunch....


Dinner was at The Sussex Pub where we sat next to a group of French people. By the way, we learned there are 300,000 French people living in England. We saw the very long voting lines on Sunday!!


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