New Year's Day was sunny and warm. We started the day with a tour of the Old Globe on the south side of the Thames. As we made our way to the Tower of London we passed a man standing in the Thames playing a guitar. He had gathered quite a little crowd around him. Melissa and I split a basket of chips and watched him for a while. We moved farther down the Thames and London Bridge rose up out of the distance. It is so much larger in real life than I expected. We toured the old Clink Prision, where heritics and debtors were chained and dunked in the hole. Crossing the Thames on the Lodond Bridge we made our way to the famed Tower of London. The crown jewels are stored here, and it is also where many, including Anne Bolyn, lost their lives. Although we found out that Elizabeth I executed more "heretics" than any other monoarch. We headed back toward London Central and to St. Paul's Church. It is the church that remained standing during the blitz of WWII while one square mile around it burned. The dome was designed by the famous Wren.
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