14 March 2011

Twilight Tours at the Tower

Wanting to return to the Tower of London, I looked at the Historic Royal Palaces' website to see if any events were taking place. I found that on Wednesdays there are 'Twilight Tours' at the Tower, and so I booked a spot for the tour. Unlike the ghost tour at Hampton Court Palace, this was not scary by any means. It's quite an informative tour, but still worth the £25 nonetheless.

The tour is guided by a yeoman, who is kind enough to ask us what we want to know about the Tower and even throws in a dash of humour if we fancy it (though one woman didn't want any humour, but nobody listened to her). As we went into Beauchamp Tower we found that one of the Beefeaters actually forgot to take his groceries up to his living quarters. The Yeoman told us it was a ghost who had done his shopping and had left it there. 

The tour is shorter than the tour at Hampton Court Palace but well worth it. There are no queues to get into places and the place is empty, so the photos won't have heaps of tourists in them. After the tour I thought it would be nice to get a photo of Tower Bridge at night:

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