I have to write a blog for every place we visit so instead of rewriting all of them I will probably use some of them for both class and my blog. So here is a bit more on the Tower of London without all the I love Christian stuff, oh and about him it is so confusing. never life a forenior they are not worth the efort maybe I will tell you all more about that later but for right now it is to strange.
The Tower of London has been one of my dreams since I was a
little girl. So much history has taken place in this one location. And now I am walking along the very halls
where it all took place. For me the
Tower has not been a place of death and sadness but a spot where great people
lived and wonderful things happened. Of
course horrible things did happened here such as the murder of Anne Boleyn, the many other wives of Henry Vlll, and also
the two princes smothered to death but it was so much more than that for
me. Climbing up those many steps to walk
along the wall of the Tower was so exhilarating. I could picture soldiers climbing higher and
higher to defend their home land, or ladies in waiting caring trays up to Anne
as she waited for her sentence. And let
me tell you there were so many steps; so many steps everywhere, everywhere we
went there were more stairs to climb.
The only place that we didn’t have to ascend to was the wait for the
Crown Jewels. I have always wondered if
what you see behind that glass is the real thing or do they even let the public
that close? After walking though those
huge vault doors seeing all the glass cases and being forced to more along by a
conveyer belt walk way I had to start believing in the reality of it. Those crowns, cups, dinner ware, and swords
where something that I will never forget.
If you ever get to go to see it no matter how long the queue is, wait
for it because that is something that you will never forget and might never
have the chance to see again. The amount
of gold that was used to create just the dinner plates is crazy; it made me wonder
why people didn’t steal their spoons after dinner. One King had a wine bowl made to look like
and island with the stand being under the water with fish, mermaids, and
shells. The stem coming up to met the
bowl were waves lapped the edges completed by the rim decorated by people
feasting, grapes, and other land dwelling things on the top of the island. The Spoon for this bowl was a shell attached
to a long golden handle. This shell was
rainbow like as a real shell would look.
The whole experience was amazing I just wish I had more time there to
really look around and take it all in.
But London is a big place and I had other places to go.
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