ENGLAND

England is a place you instantly fall in love with and home of the English Premier League FC. 

YNWA! Liverpool fan right here! It's a land of rolling hills, green green grass and also palaces, castles and wonderful people, you drive on the other side of the road, who doesn't love a British accent, the architecture..it really has it all! I will try not to bombard this blog page with too many pictures.

My whole experience in England has been just a few days (been there twice altogether- BUT I honestly could live there!

Visit LIVERPOOL

(To my dismay, I did not see Steven Gerard or any of his teammates there) 

ALBERT DOCK-monument to LDS immigrants: The first maritime dock ever built there. There is a Maritime museum that portrays the living environments to passengers on the boats.. pretty brutal. Many members and missionaries traveled these waters.

Take a coach tour of Liverpool and make sure you see the Old Georgian section. 

Visit PRESTON

Tour market square(LDS stuff): 1st lodgings, Winckley square (where Heber C Kimball and Gordon B Hinckley preached as missionaries), Avenham Park, River Ribble (below), baptismal site, Pres. Hinckley's apartment where he lived as a missionary (seen below), Site of Vauxhall Chapel and Cockpit and Ann Dawson Lodgings

Go to ASDA store for supplies, it's great there.

Also, of coarse stay at the Temple lodgings and visit the Preston Temple, it is beautiful.

Visit RIBCHESTER, HURST GREEN, CLITHEROE, CHORLEY, CHATBURN, DOWNHAM, HODDER VALLEY.

All of these small towns are beautiful. there are many churches and grave sites where many of my relatives are and that made this a wonderful experience. Before, when I thought of England, I thought of big cities and things, but there is a lot of beautiful open land too.

EAT FISH AND CHIPS...YOU HAVE TO

Visit HEREFORDSHIRE

Hike to the top of the mountain for a great view. There is a great story of Wilford Woodruff praying here, and this is also where the Merick line in my family is from.

Visit FROME HILL & 

BENBOW FARM &

LEDBURY &

MALVERN HILLS &

GADFIELD ELM (FIRST LDS CHURCH)&

CHELTENHAM

Visit OXFORD UNIVERSITY

&Hertford College

Have a steak Pasty here!!! YUM

Visit WINDSOR CASTLE

This is where the Queen spends her private weekends and some nights.

Take an audio tour and learn all about the Castle and its cool defense systems. Water well tower, Queens Doll House, Chambers etc.

Visit WESTMINSTER:

Big Ben (the name of the bell, not the clock and tower), Westminster Bridge, Londonium, Gunpowder plot,  Parliament, Boadicea, Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan wars. Westminster Abbey (lots of important people burried in there- can't take pictures, but i saw Shakespeare's grave andDalton, Newton, all the Kings-super cool), Methodist Central Hall, Churchill Cabinet War room, #10 Downing Street, Banqueting House (execution of King Charles 1), The Cenotaph, site of Old Scotland Yard, Trafalger Square, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery.

I stayed in ASTOR HYDE PARK HOSTEL... pretty nice-ish, had internet.

Visit BUCKINGHAM PALACE (stroll through st. James park)

Stay for the changing of the guard, it's great.

Visit the TOWER OF LONDON

Take a guided tour with a "Beef Eater" They are hilarious- stay close to them so you catch all their funny jokes! Guy Fox was tortured here- the torture devices did not look pretty, there are also real life dungeons! Some Crown Jewels are guarded there (can't take pics) but oh my!!!

See the LONDON BRIDGE

Go to a SOCCER GAME

CATCH A CAB

See: St. Pauls Cathedral, British Library (you'll see the Magnacarta, and origional King James and Tyndale bibles), British Museum, Stationers hall, National Portrait gallery.

TAKE A DAY TRIP TO CANTERBURY

see medieval city wall, visit St. Martins, St. Augustine's and King's school.

Watch a BROADWAY SHOW OR A SHAKESPEARE SHOW

St. Pauls/KENSINGTON

Stuff that happened here: John Wycliffe was tried here, protected by a couple of powerful english noblemen, that church burned, Christopher Wren designed a new one, feed the birds Tuppence a bag (Thank you Mary Poppins), St. Pauls Cross, Luther and Tyndale's writings burned.

HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY

STATIONER'S HALL

SMITHFIELD MARKET

bloody Mary lives there oooooh

BUNHILL FIELD CEMETARY

JOHN WESLEY'S CHURCH (world headquarters of the Methodist Faith)

TABERNACLE SQUARE

Visit HARRODS, THE ANIMAL WAR MEMORIAL.

WALK DOWN THE ARCADES GUARDED BY BEADLES.

Back in the day, and still to this day, the Beadels where put there as guards to make sure no one opened an umbrella, pushed prams, whistled or sings among some rules. Great history here- Ladies were always escorted by gentlemen. On top of these stores (the arcades) there used to be prostitutes and the men would buy some gloves or some sort of gift to give the prostitute as payment for their "time spent", then the girls would return their 'gift' to make their money. Interesting.

HAVE LUNCH AT A PUB

FIND THE PLACE WHERE THE ROYALTY GETS THEIR SHOES CUSTOM MADE

SOUVENIR SHOP AROUND THE SQUARE

love, love, love England