Saying Hello To the Queen at Buckingham Palace
Being a big fan of Sherlock Holmes , the movie Eurotrip , British musicians such as the Beatles , Coldplay etc, and British imperial history , I knew that London would be the pinnacle of any European sojourn. There are just too many places here that I wanted to see! However to have the chance to visit the city twice in two years (one with family in 2012, the other for work in 2013), gave me a good appreciation of what this city has to offer. And like any traveler in the good old days, I did what any newcomer in a strange locale was expected to first do upon arriving, and that is to pay my respects to the Sovereign . * Buckingham Palace is known the world over as the official residence of the British Monarchy . As you can see in the succeeding photographs, there is a huge difference between the size of the crowd last year (2012) and this year (2013). When I visited last year, it was about the time that the London Olympics had just ended and for some r