Day 75-76: Salzburg to London

Today we began our journey to London. We took the train to Salzburg, where we spent the afternoon wandering about while waiting for our flight, which didn't leave until around 9:30. We got into London at about 10:30 last night, but we had to take a bus into the city to find our hotel, which took almost two hours long. The metro line was closed by the time we got into the city, so we ended up having to take a taxi to our hotel, only to find out that there was a mixup with our reservations. But they still gave us a nice room, and today we got everything straightened out so we are all set. Hopefully we won't have any more hotel mishaps from this point onward. *fingers crossed* 
Today we went on an hour-long duck tour of London, which means that it was a vehicle that can go on the water and drive around the city as well. Very cool! We learned that they were invented during the war for carrying supplies, only those ones weren't yellow like ours was. The tour included seeing Big Ben, the Parliament building (which is next to Big Ben), going on the Thames River, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, James Bond stuff, etc. Our tour guide was very "punny." So it was a great way to start the day. We happened upon the beginning of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, before the guards set out. We spent the afternoon at a beautiful park that reminded me of Kingwood, only we could sit and walk about on the grass here. I started reading Chesterton's Ballad of the White Horse here: an amazing poem, btw, so far! We then went to Evensong at Westminster Abbey (the Anglican church). They had beautiful music, and a beautiful sounding organ! They sang some stuff by Tallis and Palestrina, who were both Catholic composers. The organist played a praeludium by Bruhns, which I believe was a student of Buxtehude - their compositional styles seem very similar, and I vaguely recall reading that for my music history term paper last semester. Thus, all in all, it was a good day!