{"id":11983,"date":"2019-10-28T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2019-11-05T22:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T21:36:30","slug":"daily_1759_-_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/daily_1759_-_london\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1759 &#8211; London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1759_London_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday we saw the Tower of London from the outside. Today we came back, bought tickets and went inside. Ingrid was a bit sceptical at first but agreed to give it a try, especially when she saw the informational signs about Henry VIII and his six wives. (Her love of Hamilton has led her to listen to other musicals as well, including <i>Six<\/i>, about those six wives. &#8220;Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.&#8221; Musical + Tower = history coming to life.)<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot to be seen and done there, enough to keep us occupied for half a day: the history of the Royal Mint, exhibitions of all kinds, the various walls and towers themselves, and then of course the crown jewels. The queue for those snaked back and forth across the entire courtyard but moved quite quickly so the wait didn&#8217;t feel as long as it was. And the crown jewels are quite magnificent to see. The oldest ones are massive gold and big colourful jewels; the newest are all edges and sparkle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1759_London_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1759_London_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nOur final afternoon activity was a tour on the London Eye. The tour itself was half an hour, but booking, getting the tickets and then queueing to get onto the thing took forever, so the whole endeavour literally filled our afternoon. It was a nice and relaxing experience. Too bad they&#8217;ve wrapped Big Ben in scaffolding though.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1759_London_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1759_London_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday we saw the Tower of London from the outside. Today we came back, bought tickets and went inside. Ingrid was a bit sceptical at first but agreed to give it a try, especially when she saw the informational signs about Henry VIII and his six wives. (Her love of Hamilton has led her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}