Tour #1 was the free tour. Sandemans New Europe offers tons of tours all over Europe and this was my 4th.
This particular tour was a lot of sightseeing but not as much information as I'm use. To getting. We saw Buckingham palace, Prince Charles' house, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square and plenty more. The best thing we heard about was where the term "stiff drink" came from. To preserve the body of deceased (Nelson?) during a war, his bidy was put in a barrel of Brandy. The sailors got thirsty on the way home and drank that brandy. Eww eww eww!!!!
The tour ended at a pub for some really delicious sausage and mash.
Between our tours we walked around to see what we could and do a bit of shopping. We ended up at Picadilly Circus and in the M&M store!! It was awesome! I bought some (how could I not) pink ones, some colorful "crunchy" ones and some "guardsman" peanut ones. Yum yum!
From there we hopped on the tube and over to the east end of London. The tube station is right outside Tower of London.
This tour is called Grimm Reapers. It's about Jack the Ripper, the plague, execution, crime, prostitution, immigration and life in East London.
I don't want to share much about this tour because it certainly isn't for everyone, but we did stand where the biggest plague put in Britain was and we stood where the rippers victims where found.
I will also share another phrase meaning though. "Laughing your head off" comes from an execution. During this mans execution (he was to be beheaded) he was appalled at how many people came out to watch him die. He was an old man, this shouldn't be entertaining. Ironically, the audience was standing in a stage of sorts and it collapsed killing 20!! This made the man laugh uncontrollably. Apparently he was even laughing after his head rolled away. Strange...
To finish our night we got sushi and Boone tickets for tomorrow's adventure!!!
xoxo
Jan 8, 2013
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