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666 Unter den Linden; Touring the Thames; A Heart for Public Art

Travel with Rick Steves

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What's the Story of London Flooding?

During elizabethan times, everything was taking place around a place called a custom house. And that's where objects were uff loaded and the taxes were paid. But london as a port was abandoned in the 19 sixtie seventies when ships became container ships. The port now is located out towards the estuary, and is still a huge working port. Laura: Something kind of fundamental to beach coming on the thames is the fact that theThames is tidal.

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