Days: 9 days

Time: September

With whom: with friends

Play: free travel, petty bourgeoisie, photography, humanities, local transportation, shopping

The author went to these places

London

Hampton Palace

Greenwich

Westminster Abbey

Tower of London

Parliament building

Buckingham Palace

Kensington Palace

Big Ben

St James Park

10 Downing Street

National Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

The Mall

Queen's Gallery

Royal Mews

the Thames

Millennium Bridge

Kensington Park

High Street

Natural History Museum

Science Museum

Notting Hill

London Eye

Hyde Park

Chelsea

British Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

Royal Albert Hall

Tate Modern

Barbican Centre

London Fire Memorial

monument

piccadilly circus

Oxford Street

West End

Regents Park

Dali Universe

british library

Imperial War Museum

Royal Air Force Museum

HMS Belfast

Tower Bridge, London

Sherlock Holmes Museum

Bank of England Museum

Baker Street

Sheldonian Theatre

Viewing platform

Oxford

University of Cambridge

Emmanuel College

Monument to martyrs

Museum of history of Science

Bodleian Library

New College

Jianhe

Oxford

University College

Merton College

Corpus Christi College

Carfax Tower

St. John's College

King's College

Queen's College

Mathematics Bridge

Cutty Sark

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

St.Paul's Cathedral

Trinity College Cambridge

Published on November 20, 2012 13:36

First of all, I am Gu Jian, the original author of this article. I've just come to Lvping to register, but it seems that Li Gui registered the ID of Gujian before, so I use the current ID instead. The "two legged bookcase" is a self mockery. I've learned from Lao Tao's spirit of "good reading, no understanding", and now I'm in my 30s. It's like a mess of miscellaneous learning, from poetry and Ode to fencing Chinese medicine. I know a little about everything, and I'm not good at anything. There are still some preferences. European history and culture have some experience. Since he was a child, more than 80% of the books on his parents' bookshelves were translated from foreign countries. Later, I got my green card last summer and finally got out of the United States. So I had to go to Europe, but I was afraid: German is a second foreign language in University, French and Italian can only say hello and thank you (that's an exaggeration: in fact, I can only say hello in French and thank you in Italian, haha). So I chose London for my first European tour, At least you have a good command of language. After you have a concept of clothing, food, housing and transportation, you will go to Europe again this summer vacation. Winter in London is not a season suitable for tourism. The opening hours of various scenic spots are short. Many of them close at 4 p.m. and some of them close for maintenance in winter. It's also cloudy and rainy. It's hard to get sunny days. The effect of taking photos is not good. In fact, for travel enthusiasts, there are only people who can't play, and there are no seasons that are not suitable for playing. Believe it or not? There are many advantages of travel in the off-season: hotels are cheap (hotels in London are not usually expensive); The air ticket is cheap (my return ticket from New York to London is only $300, including all taxes); Is the opening time short? Just after 5 p.m., you can go to Liz Ritz Hotel for afternoon tea, go to Bond Street in Bond Street, visit famous brand shops, go to the west to see the musical, go to the Covent Garden bubble bar in the garden of Covent, these London elite cultural activities awfully need not occupy the time of visiting the scenic spots in the daytime. Can't take a good picture on a cloudy day? That's just an excuse for my poor photography. Otherwise, my travel photos will be pasted together with those big photographers on the Internet, which will be dwarfed, and will not damage my glorious image? I stayed in London for 8-9 days. Basically, I saw all the places I wanted to see in London, and went to Windsor, Hampton Court, Greenwich, Oxford and Cambridge on the outside. It's messy to keep a daily account of so many places, so I rearrange all these places according to the theme. In addition, in Europe, where every stone infiltrates history, it is very important to understand the historical background of each country. Otherwise, it is difficult to fully appreciate the subtleties of those churches and palaces. In addition, I wrote an independent article on the millennium history of the British monarchy and international currency exchange techniques, one for retreat and one for practicality, as an attachment to this travel note. Chapter one "I'm not alone" -- Royal London (abstract of this chapter: Westminster Abby, tower of London, Windsor Castle, parliament building, Whitehall Palace, St. James palace, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court Palace. This chapter involves a lot of historical allusions. If you are not familiar with English history, you'd better refer to the appendix of my "millennium history of the British royal family". Section 1 Westminster Abby I went to London on my own this time. It seems that I went back to my college days 10 years ago when Backpackers traveled all over the world. When I think of "I'm not alone", the original intention is because of a friend, a very good friend, a very personal idea. It suddenly occurred to me later that Huang Jianxiang's passionate commentary could be used to describe my sudden sense of history in Westminster Abbey: "I'm not wandering alone, I'm not alone... Lionheart, Edward I, Henry V, they're with me... In this moment, Nelson, Wellington, soul possessed... Great England, great monarch and great general... I'm not alone, I'm not alone - long live Britain. Is that funny? In fact, when I was in Westminster Abbey, I was really touched by history. In my opinion, there are two places in London that are most impressive in history: Westminster Abbey and the tower of London. There are many historic sites in the Millennium kingdom. Where can we start? Let's start from the beginning: among the historic sites in London today, the tower of London and Westminster Abbey should be the earliest, both before and after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The time when Westminster Abbey was first built is not known. However, as the church crowned by the king, today's structure was established by King Edward the saint. He died in 1066, and his brother-in-law King Harold succeeded him. Harold died in the battle of Hastings in the same year, and William the Duke of Normandy conquered England, which is the Norman Conquest, So St. Edward was the first king to be buried here. Since Harold, successive British kings have been crowned here, including Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.