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    Milk!

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F

    Right outside the Westminster Underground station was a tiny supermarket, Tesco Express. Tesco is all over London and they seem to be a very popular chain of supermarkets. I went inside and got some milk to drink. I haven't had any milk to drink since we've left America and I was really missing it.
    I was surprised that the portions of milk, and basically everything Tesco sells, was very tiny. Buying a gallon of milk here, or the metric equivalent seems to be unheard of. The biggest size container of milk that I saw in stores was a little less than a quart. Strangely, all the milk is sold in what looks exactly like a gallon container but it's shrunk way down. I feel like I'm a giant holding a jug of milk there!
    Even though it was small, it was so good to be drinking milk again. It's one of my favorite foods and so delicious to me.    En savoir plus

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    A Stroll on Downing Street

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    I'm not sure why our tour guide had us meet at Westminster Station because it was quite a walk to get to the first thing she wanted to show us. I'm guessing that Westminster looks more impressive with Big Ben right there and it's a place that everyone could find easily.
    This is Downing Street, where most of London's government buildings are located. Their prime minister lives here too, at 10 Downing Street. Their home was pointed out to us as we walked past but we didn't stop. I would have liked to take a look at it but I'm guessing that the tour guide thought that she should only show us Harry Potter related sites, since this was a Harry Potter tour. I wouldn't have minded if she mixed things up a little, especially when we are going right past these places anyway.    En savoir plus

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    Great Scotland Yard

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Our first real stop on the tour was Scotland Yard, headquarters to the world famous police force of England. Apparently, the Scotland Yard building was used as the Ministry of Magic building in the Harry Potter movies.
    Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.
    The name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station, and over time the street and the Metropolitan Police became synonymous. The New York Times wrote in 1964 that just as Wall Street gave its name to New York's financial district, Scotland Yard became the name for police activity in London.    En savoir plus

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    At the Ministry of Magic

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    This was right across from Scotland Yard. In one of the Harry Potter films, there was an important scene of Ron Weasley peeking around a corner before they sneak into the Ministry of Magic. This is the actual corner that he peeked around. I should watch the movies again, because I honestly don't remember this scene at all. It must have been memorable though because some of the people on the tour with us were taking pictures of themselves peeking around this corner, reenacting the scene from the film.En savoir plus

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    Over the Rooftops

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Looking up, I'm very surprised to see how run down and old fashioned the building housing Scotland Yard is. I can easily see why this building was used as the headquarters for the Ministry of Magic. It's got the same style of architecture that's been in all of the Harry Potter movies. It's just a bit strange looking for a British government building. Perhaps Scotland Yard has moved somewhere else and this is just the old location? I'll need to do some research about this.En savoir plus

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    Trafalgar Square

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Trafalgar Square was the next stop on the tour. Not only were several scenes from the movies shot here but it was also the site of the London premier of some of the Harry Potter movies. It had one of the longest red carpets ever and it stretched all around Trafalgar Square and then down the street to the theater. I can only imagine what the crowds were like for those events!En savoir plus

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    Lions

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    Several of these big lion statues are sitting in Trafalgar Square. We learned that these statues were actually modeled after dogs since the artist didn't have any lions available for reference. A big problem, that people didn't discover until later is that, while dogs are able to sit like this, it's impossible for a lion to do it due to their anatomy. Rather then get rid of the statues, they just kept them as-is and they still sit there, incorrectly, today.En savoir plus

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    Nelson’s Victory

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    The centerpiece of Trafalgar Square is Nelson's Column, which was built to honor Admiral Horatio Nelson, who led the British to Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson's Column is 169 ft 3 Inches tall.
    Although the rain has stopped, that sky still looks quite threatening but, from what I understand, this is the usual weather that people expect in England.    En savoir plus

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    Mermen

    9 novembre 2016, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 46 °F

    The two fountains in Trafalgar Square in London commemorate Admirals Jellycoe and Beatty, and include elaborate sculptures of mermaids, mermen, tritons and dolphins.  The sculptures were created by William McMillan and Sir Charles Wheeler for the fountains designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
    The fountains were originally created in 1845, but without the sculptures. At the time the fountains were intended to simply take up space in Trafalgar Square, so that there would be less space available for demonstrators and rioters.
    In 1935 plans were approved by parliament to add memorials to these fountains, and also these sea-creature sculptures by McMillan and Wheeler. The bronze statues were completed in 1939, but due to the war all work on Trafalgar Square was suspended at that time.
    Work on this did not resume until after the war in 1947. The finished memorials and the fountains were unveiled in October of 1948.    En savoir plus

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  • Fin du voyage
    14 novembre 2016