Monday, April 5, 2010

The London Chronicles: Part 1

Hello,
The following few posts are going to be made up of stories from my trip to London. They will be in no order and there may only be two or there may be twenty, I don't know.
Anywho where to start...how about Windsor, Oxford and Stonehenge which was a tour that took all day.

You may not know that Windsor is the weekend palace for the queen. It is a beautiful place and is almost a thousand years old...I think. The first thing I went to see was the Royal doll house and the Royal apartments I think they were called. The doll house was incredible. It is taller and wider than me with several floors. It is mainly a building with all the royal bedrooms and kitchens and gardens. The thing I found the most amazing was the fact that it has actual working electricity and plumbing. There is also a working vacuum and everything is to scale. CRAZY!!!

Oxford was a short part of the tour. We drove through the town and had tea in a shop which was crazy good. We then toured the town and found out where the Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland were inspired. Alice in wonderland was just a story that was told on a picnic and boatride on a date. C.S. Lewis was inspired by a door that had a faun on it and a Lion on it. Not five feet from it was a lamp post in the middle of an alley way which is a completely random spot. Soooooooooooooo Cool.

Stonehenge was a place that was very vague. Most of the tour was made up of scientific guess rather than fact. It was still awesome to see the structure and wonder how people thousands of years ago were able to move stone that BIG so many miles. A hundred yards or so away there were mounds in the ground that apparently were mass graves of the pagans that lived there so many years ago. A bit gross but whatever. It was interesting.

As I said before these stories will go in no order and it might be over a few weeks that I write these.
That concludes Windsor, Stonehenge and Oxford.
-Scoots