Adjusting To London

One of the first days that we got to England we took a realy cool walking tour of London. We got to see a lot of the interesting parts of London. We saw the Abby at Westminster, the Clock tower with Big Ben, the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

At first he didn't look very official, but surprisingly he knew everything and anything you could want to know. He knew a lot of interesting stories about the places that we saw. He was quite candid and often a little off color which lead to hilarity.

There are a series of two buildings designed by the same architect in the middle of the city. One is a bank I believe and the other is the Mayor's office. The bank is a rounded off tower and the Mayor's office is a round dome. Most of the other tour guide have refered to them with a more polite food metaphor. The first tour guide used a much more hilarious and off color pet name for the buildings.

The most interesting thing that I learned was that the city of London is really two cities. There is the area called simlpy "The City" and the section called "Westminster." Westminster is the older royal section of town that is much older and typically what people think of when they think of London. The City is the business district of London. The two parts literally have two different governments.