Day 146, November 6, 2016 - Tower of London
Today does not bode well for sunshine. Nevertheless, 10s of thousands of people queued up to see the commemorative 850,000 ceramic poppies in the moat surrounding the Tower of London.
Each poppy represents the fallen Brits in World War I. We are always impressed with the strong sense of memorial of the people of he commonwealth, much more so than in America. Here, almost everyone wears poppies and war loss and gratitude is magnified. We bought our poppies, and from what we understand all 850,000 poppies have been sold with the proceeds going to veterans projects. Way cool!
Each poppy represents the fallen Brits in World War I. We are always impressed with the strong sense of memorial of the people of he commonwealth, much more so than in America. Here, almost everyone wears poppies and war loss and gratitude is magnified. We bought our poppies, and from what we understand all 850,000 poppies have been sold with the proceeds going to veterans projects. Way cool!
We walked from Tower Bridge
to the Tower of London and back toward Bank Street, enjoying the architecture of both old and new buildings in London. Once again, we met up with a traveling buddy that we met on our Australian Outback adventure two years ago. Claudia is a German, working and living in London. She is lots of fun, and we enjoyed a great meet-up and Vietnamese cuisine at the DaNang Restaurant.
to the Tower of London and back toward Bank Street, enjoying the architecture of both old and new buildings in London. Once again, we met up with a traveling buddy that we met on our Australian Outback adventure two years ago. Claudia is a German, working and living in London. She is lots of fun, and we enjoyed a great meet-up and Vietnamese cuisine at the DaNang Restaurant.
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All is Well with the Worrall Travel R's wearing our poppies in London.
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