Gerritt's Pictures:
London
February 20-23, 2005
This is part one of a two-city trip that Daryl and I took to London and Paris. We blitzed the two cities, spending just three days in each and visiting every famous museum, tourist spot, and observation tower in the cities. We climbed dozens of spiral staircases, watched it snow from the Eiffel Tower, saw a man with no pants, and visited two of the most historic and important cities in the world. Below are the pictures from London, and you can find my Paris pictures on the next page. Cheers!
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The pond at Kensington Gardens |
RC sailboats on the pond |
Approaching the Tower of London |
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The Tower of London |
A tour through the Tower |
Peering out the window of the Tower |
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The Tower Bridge |
We climbed a LOT of spiral staircases |
"The gherkin" building as seen from the Tower of London |
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Same Tower of London, different view |
That's an old Bloody Tower |
The Tower Bridge seen from the Tower of London wall |
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Weather vane on the Tower |
The guards of the crown jewels |
Changing guards |
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Leaving the Tower |
Same bridge, different view |
London skyline, with the Tower of London below |
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The Thames downriver |
The flag on the top of the Tower Bridge |
The Thames upriver |
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London business district skyline |
The Thames winds through London |
Daryl celebrates his trip across the Thames |
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The Tower Bridge again |
In London, "subway" means "go under the road" (not "underground train") |
The Underground (or "the tube") |
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Mind the gap |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields is-a-cool-church |
Trafalgar Square at night |
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London and Paris are both trying to win the Olympics in 2012 (along with New York, coincidentally) |
Picadilly Circus (its sorta like Times Square only smaller and less crowded) |
Daryl, where are we? |
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St. Paul's cathedral |
A view from the St. Paul's cathedral dome, note the Tate Modern art museum and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre museum |
St. Paul's clock tower |
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A view from atop London, note the London Eye in the distance |
Same view, wider angle |
I climbed 73 million steps to get up here |
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Daryl is totally way down |
St. Paul's cathedral |
St. Paul's cathedral dome |
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The Millennium Bridge, one of London's many year-2000 celebratory structures |
The Millennium Bridge (c. 1999) and the St. Paul's cathedral dome (c. 1668) |
London bridges (the middle one fell down) |
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Old train bridge pier |
Looking up at the Millennium London Eye (giant silly Ferris wheel) |
Big Ben |
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Parliament |
Bigger Ben |
The Eye sees all!! |
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Same Parliament, different view |
Big expensive building (aka Parliament) |
Westminster Abbey |
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A snowy London scene |
Snow falls on a building |
The sun sets over Parliament |
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Daryl on the double deck trolley inside the transit museum |
In London, "Way Out" means "Exit" |
Notting Hill Gate tube stop |
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Our hotel in the snow |
Same hotel, different view |
The view from our hotel room |
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Battleship HMS Bellfast |
Tower Bridge from the tour boat |
Tower of London from the tour boat |
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Daryl in front of the tallship Cutty Sark |
The Cutty Sark, an 18th-century tea trade ship now dry-docked in Greenwich |
Maritime Museum in Greenwich |
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Greenwich Royal Observatory |
Same observatory, closer view |
View from the observatory |
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London's Millennium Dome |
The Prime Meridian |
The center of the world |
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Daryl crosses the line |
Walking the zero line |
Gerritt is a royal observer |
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The Greenwich Royal Observatory, the "home of time" |
I spy London |
London from Greenwich |
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I have no idea what this means |
This foot tunnel that goes under the Thames in Greenwich is over a hundred years old |
Greenwich Maritime Academy |
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Mudchute anyone? |
Buckingham Palace gates |
Queen Victoria monument outside the palace |
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Same palace, different view (kinda looks like the White House, doesn't it?) |
Big Ben from afar, as night falls on our last day in London |
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