I would just like to take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to Mike for sharing his wonderful trip with us. I have enjoyed his posts very much and learnt a lot!
I hope that you will join me in thanking him for taking the time to write in such detail about each of the fascinating locations he visited and I would appreciate it very much if you left a comment of thanks if you too have enjoyed his posts as much as I have.
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Without further ado…
Tower of London, St. Dunstan’s, St. John’s, St. Bartholomew’s
Day 6: The Finale!
By Mike Glaeser
Tower of London
Nothing fires the imagination more than a visit to the infamous Tower of London. Since I first saw it in 2006, it has always been one of my favorites. In fact, I used the Tower as the subject for my final art history paper at university. It offers a piece of history for everyone and is not just focused on dungeons and executions as much as public advertising would like you to think. Besides a prison, it was a medieval palace, zoo, mint, armory and a space observatory. The current exhibition is on the royal menagerie. The story of all the beasts at the Tower is half the excitement. They opened up two further towers to view, which were not usually open to the public. These are the Brick and Bowyer towers. In the latter, a famous prisoner was executed by being drowned in a barrel of malmsey wine. But we’re not concerned about medieval drama…no, we are looking for the last vestiges tied to the Tudors. Thankfully, there’s plenty to see…
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