London town

A drive and a DLR (docklands light rail) into the city and  Brett and I arrived into london and were starring at tower bridge. It is an amazing bridge. Brett and I had kind of arrived at tower bridge and had absolutely no idea what bridge we were looking at- Brett had even thought it was London bridge. We were those kind of tourists... Whilst admiring the bridge and contemplating whether to climb up it or not, a little something on my left had caught my eye and I was fairly entranced. It was a castle with people walking on the balconies and terraces. I desperately wanted to be one of those people... It was the first castle I had ever seen and like a mouse to cheese, I was quickly drawn in. It was the tower of London and it was unbelievably impressive. We walked around and apart me was overwhelmed at the thought of being in a castle let alone wondering through it! We learnt an awful lot about the history of the building and I was interested to know that william the conqueror had built one section, the white tower, in 1078. Throughout its time the castle had been used as a prison, an execution site, a menagerie, an armoury, a mint and currently houses the crown jewels, which we were able to see. We visited the 'dungeon' and saw the old equipment used for torture and saw a site set up near the place where people such as Anne boleyn were executed. I thought the whole thing was absolutely wonderful. Such a surreal day but it was exactly what I had been dreaming about when planning our Europe trip.