If you go to see the Changing of the Guard, don't be fooled by all the people crowded around, facing the street area that we're facing in this picture. Even though there's people waiting in the far reaches, if you're gonna wait, you still want to be near the Palace gates because that's where all the action actually happens. Here on the street, you get some good views, but only when they march in and out of the Palace. And, as you can imagine, that only happens once at the beginning, and once at the end.
Not sure exactly what happens inside the Palace gates, but it's some combination of music and marching back and forth.
I think they're "Changing" the Guard.
The music...
The Queen's Guard
After the Changing of the Guard, we took another trip to Borough Market. Couldn't get enough of those pies, so we went for 2 more.
One of most popular bakeries in London is Konditor and Cook, and while there are several locations, one is conveniently located across the street from the Borough Market.
I actually don't remember all the things we got, but I would say you can't go wrong picking one of their sponge cakes.
We then ventured off to the British Museum.
I actually thought this was a museum focused on British history and cool British stuff. It wasn't a pretty neat museum, but not specific to Great Britain. It had something from a variety of countries.
A piece of the Rosetta Stone
Some sort of structure from Greece haha.
I don't remember exactly what structure this is above, but it was pretty cool because they basically took a whole bunch of chunks from the place and reassembled it. Of course, the interpretation or whether or not this is an accurate reconstruction is still up for debate.
Nice museum facility...
I don't know if I'd recommend spending time visiting this museum. It must have some cool artifacts, but nothing stood out too much to me. I think you can pass this up on a visit to London.
From here, we went to Covent Market. It's not quite the same as Borough that is really focused on food. Covent Market is basically like a mall, a 3rd street promenade type - an outdoor shopping area with common name brands we recognize in America.
However, one of the notable places here for us was Ben's Cookies.
Much like the cake from Konditor and Cook, their desserts have a different consistency to them that I can't quite place. Cookies were good though!
For dinner, we went to Lamb & Flag, a pub established in 1772. Apparently it was often associated with bare knuckle fights back in the day.
I got Fish & Chips and Sophy got another Steak and Ale pie.
The food was decent, but it did help me understand that Master's Super Fish was definitely a top notch Fish & Chips shop.
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