I love London! After some slight confusion trying to find the correct tube station, we made it to Hyde Park Corner where we met up with the New London tour, as we'd previously done in other cities. Our guides name was Catie, and she was brilliant. We were lucky enough to not have much rain until later in the afternoon and enjoyed the sites of Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, St. James Palace, Green Park, 10 Downing St (Home to the Prime Minister), the Horseguards (my favorite of course!), Big Ben (better known to Londoners as the Clock Tower), Churchill's War Cabinet bunker, the Houses of Parliament (housed within Westminster Palace), Westminster Abbey, and pretty much every other important site in London. Did you know that Green park got it's name because Charles II was quite the
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