Big Ben. (Don't forget you can click on any picture to enlarge it!)
A couple of shots of Millennium Bridge, which the locals call Wobbly Bridge and refuse to walk across. The cucumber looking building in the first shot is called the Gherkin for obvious reasons!
A replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
The London Bridge....is SO boring looking that it should fall down and soon.
Trafalgar Square. Legend says that if Big Ben ever strikes 13:00 the lion statues in the square will get up and walk around.
Westminster Abbey. I also paid to tour this church and it was well worth the money. No pictures allowed but I got to see where so many Kings, Queens, and famous people were buried and memorialized. It is pretty amazing how many dead people they fit in there! All jokes aside it was pretty amazing how much history this one building holds.
This is me being a goofball and trying to take a picture of myself. I am in the green with the camera in my face, if you can see me. I am on the top deck of the tour bus I rode around in for one of the days I was there.
The Tate Modern with Millennium Bridge in front.
The Marble Arch near Hyde Park. Excuse the bad framing as I was zooming by it on the bus!
Speakers Corner at Hyde Park.
A newly built statue of Nelson Mandela
Good Old Winston Churchill
Big Ben. (Don't forget you can click on any picture to enlarge it!)
A couple of shots of Millennium Bridge, which the locals call Wobbly Bridge and refuse to walk across. The cucumber looking building in the first shot is called the Gherkin for obvious reasons!
A replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
The London Bridge....is SO boring looking that it should fall down and soon.
Trafalgar Square. Legend says that if Big Ben ever strikes 13:00 the lion statues in the square will get up and walk around.
Westminster Abbey. I also paid to tour this church and it was well worth the money. No pictures allowed but I got to see where so many Kings, Queens, and famous people were buried and memorialized. It is pretty amazing how many dead people they fit in there! All jokes aside it was pretty amazing how much history this one building holds.
This is me being a goofball and trying to take a picture of myself. I am in the green with the camera in my face, if you can see me. I am on the top deck of the tour bus I rode around in for one of the days I was there.
The Tate Modern with Millennium Bridge in front.
The Marble Arch near Hyde Park. Excuse the bad framing as I was zooming by it on the bus!
Speakers Corner at Hyde Park.
A newly built statue of Nelson Mandela
Good Old Winston Churchill
1 comment:
tuesday sept. 2 2008
nicole,
glad you got to spend some time in london. what is the date of the queen elizabeth statue. it says something about 1839...is that the date of it. the wobbly bridge...love how the english name things. some of their names for food dishes are interesting.
went to see jen at bravo with john sunday. we went early for lunch there. i had the wonderful lasagna. john and i got stuck in traffic and jen also got stuck around an accident. jen said someone was shot there. victim didn't make it. we took jen some gifts.
brian and jen and i may be related to an english lord. he did some early settling in canada. my gandmother had researched somewhat on the subject, but no one else has looked into that. anyway we do have ancestry in the british isles. scotland for sure and the howards in england.
i have to go for now.
hope you had a good holiday weekend.
cathy
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