SITES & SIGHTS

We will visit a number of sights as a group. The admission costs of these trips will be included in the overall costs, so you will need no additional money for these excursions (other than money for any souvenirs and/or food and drink at the locations.)

Below is a list of some London sights we will see and links to related websites:

Tower of London Palace, Prison, Castle, the heart of ancient London.

London Eye The Big Ferris Wheel on the River Thames

Westminster Abbey Site of Coronations since 1066, and resting place of many Nobel Prize winners and other well known physicists! (Newton, Faraday, Dirac, Thomson, etc.) 

Hampton Court Palace Henry VIII's Palace outside central London.

Stonehenge & Bath, England A stone henge... and the city of Bath with entrance to the Roman Baths

Science Museum  Lots of great exhibitions on science (James Watt & "power", plastics, etc.)

British Museum Artifacts from the history of the British Empire

Greenwich Observatory & Prime Meridian. 0 degrees Longitude and an excellent exhibit on time and clocks.