London

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Where have you been?

The location that I have chosen is London, England, which is part of the United Kingdom. I went there in the summer of 2001 and had a wonderful time. Its latitude and longitude is 52N and 0. The geography and physical scenery of London, England is mostly flat plains and lowlands broken by low ranges of small hills. A typical London street has many small shops, pubs and double-decker buses everywhere. Houses are all built very close together and there are very few apartment buildings. London is generally a cool region, which receives a lot of rain so, for our trip it was practically raining everyday.
The transportation that my family and I took was by a Canada 3000 airplane. We stayed in London, England with family for about three weeks.
In London we visited many attractions including Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar square, Buckingham palace where the royal family lives, The houses of parliament, London Tower Bridge, Westminster abbey where princess Diana and Prince Charles got married, and many museums containing collections of paintings and objects relating to the United Kingdoms history. My other favourite attraction was Madame Trusauds wax museum there I got to take picture with all my favourite superstars except they were all models made of wax.
We traveled around using the subway except in London it is called the “Underground”. We also loved to travel in the bright red double-decker buses that traveled all over London and gave us a great view of the city from the upper deck.
My family and I got to take a tour of Buckingham palace because once a year they open the palace to the public for tours. However the royal family was in Scotland on vacation during these tours therefore, we had no chance of meeting them so we were quite disappointed. I had also learned many interesting facts about the royal family. One of the things I learned is that today the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy...