The Tower has served as a castle in wartime, a king’s residence in peacetime, and, most notoriously, as the prison and execution site of rebels.
Category: International – Cool Locations
The greatest church in the English-speaking world, Westminster Abbey is where England’s kings and queens have been crowned and buried since 1066. Like a stony
Located at the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude), this observatory is famous as the point from which all time and distances on earth are measured.
Displaying an unsurpassed collection of European paintings from 1250 to 1900 – including works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Turner ,Van Gogh, and the Impressionists
Just about every visitor to London strolls along historic Whitehall from Big Ben to Trafalgar Square. Using Rick Steves guided walk, we’ll try to give
On our first night in London, we thought we would take it easy on the tourist stuff. So we checked into our home base for
We departed York by train – a first experience for Jackie. It was a day of first’s for Jackie – a train, a black cab,
I’ve grown to love walking on the old city walls of medieval cities. They have often been restored and provide a nice vantage point for
The pride of York, this largest Gothic church north of the Alps (540 feet long, 200 feet tall) brilliantly shows that the High Middle Ages
Medieval York, with 9,000 inhabitants, grew rich on the wool trade and became England’s second city. Henry VIII used the city’s fine Minster as the