Tower Bridge

The world famous Tower Bridge was made in 1894. I thought it was older than that. Still that's pretty cool.

Everyone crossing the bridge on foot wanted to take a picture of this. I was no different. For a minute though I thought that there was going to be some random stranger in it. It's situated well onto the bridge, so if want a picture too, just start walking across the bridge and you'll see it. 

There was a lot of traffic, car and foot. 

So this was pretty exciting. The Bridge, while completely functioning, doesn't open on a schedule. The likelihood of seeing it open is pretty rare. 

In 1993 the Bridge opened to the public, which means you can now go on tours inside it, instead of just walking across it. I didn't take a tour, but it was still fun to walk across. 

There was a security guard on the bridge at a gate toward the middle of the bridge to make sure no one would try and cross it before it went up. People were really excited to see it raise. I even heard a couple of British women say that they'd never seen it open before. That made me feel pretty cool. Here, I'd seen the bridge for about fifteen minutes and it was already raising. Maybe not fair, but pretty sweet awesome.

If you want to see the Bridge for yourself you can take the London Underground (Train,) to the Tower Hill stop on the District and Circle Lines. (This is where a tube map comes in handy.)

There are also Hop on Hop off bus tours that go by the bridge. The bridge is in a popular tourist area. Other nearby attractions include the Tower of London with their famous Beef Eater Tours, the Tour Dungeon, and a Jack the Ripper Tour, amongst other things.