Parlez vous Parliament?

Yet again, I made may way to London. Today I did a little window browsing down Oxford st. and dropped in to the Apple Store (very suave...lotsa fun iPod stuff). I then went on another tour of the National Gallery, this time focusing on more historical paintings in the early 17th century.

The highlight of the day was certainly the tour of the parliament buidlings. They were crazy!!! So overdone! The first oom you walk into where the queen would enter is covered everywhere in gold. I couldn't take any pictures inside unfortunately, so you really have to see it to believe it. The House of Lords was equally crazy. Gold chairs and well... gold everywhere. The House of Commons was almost identical to Canada's. (No surprise... as it was quite obviously modeled after Britain's). Above is Big Ben again, just at the entrance to Parliament. I've never been a huge fan of Big Ben until I saw it in person. It is really a fantastic, beautiful monument.

JIF
The U.K. = England + Wales + Scotland + Northern Ireland
Great Britain = The U.K. - Northern Ireland