Lycée George-Sand La Châtre

On Day Five, we visited the wonderful Globe Theater, picnicked on the banks, crossed the Thames and walked up to Tower Pier, whence we took a boat which brought us to Westminster Pier. We then walked to National Gallery ( alas, no pictures to share with you ! Cameras were forbidden ... and at 18:00, Greenwich Meridian Time, our coach driver picked us up for the long ride home.

Millenium Walk with saint Paul’s cathedral in the background

Sam Wanamaker, founder of the Globe

Inside the Globe - the Neon sign on stage reads " Venice", as the modernized version of the Merchant of Venice was being played

Globe model

Jacuzzi ( with real live goldfish ! ) in the foreground

Our guide was a riot and he had us in fits

Here he is vainly exhorting two of our students to french-kiss and pretend they are Romeo and Juliet

Tower Bridge in the distance

Some alien pod dropped out of the sky from an invader spaceship

The Shard

For sale ! Two lonely pillars for a bridge that never got built

Queen Bouddica on her high horses, greeting us at Westminster Pier

Hem.... a bridge ?

Gigantic bicycle wheel, with miniature prison cells at the end of each spole, where humans are kept in custody

gigantic horse’s head

Big Ben

Man in black with strange hat walking his pet horse

National Gallery