England Day 2: London!
unfortunately i can’t remember most details of where or of what these pictures were taken… and i took a ton. yes, there really are that many pages.
Tower of London
goofing off before the yeoman tour starts
a collapsed wall?
next page: more tower!
Tower of London
sucks to be that guy, eh? i tended to say that a lot. the british are visually kind of brutal.
i have no idea what the significance of this wall is.
inside this building some guy was actually doing PAPERWORK. it’s like when you find out your teacher is human.
next page: ravens!
Tower of London
The Ravens
!!!!!
i think this is my favorite one.
i like this one too though.
The Jewel House
ridiculous lions and unicorns were EVERYWHERE. you’d think they were symbols of the nation or something. and what’s with the unicorn’s bling? sheesh. somebody should have told it chains are out.
next page: armory
Tower of London
The Armory
it’s a good thing they had a toilet, because i really had to go.
where the poo goes… onto people below!
effigy of guy fawkes. clever!
these wooden guys were just hanging out drinking ale at the armory.
next page: more armory
Tower of London
The Armory
the armory was one of those places you never can leave. we kept going for the exit and it would just take us to a different level of the museum.
again, sucks to be this guy.
a cluster of nails and other stuff melted together after a fire. this was around the time we realized that the british apparently keep EVERYTHING because it might have significance someday.
kickin’ pillars, eh?
i… think this was taken in the armory but i have no idea what it’s of.
next page: some of the living quarters
Tower of London
The Living Quarters
the private prayer room of some dude whose name i should probably know.
little personal chapel area.
luckily ken had some floo powder on him.
this was pretty amazing… some of the carvings of people imprisoned in the towers. some very intellectual, some artistic…
next page: wandering randomly around london!
Various Wanderings
EAT ended up saving our lives. i wanted to hold out for a pasty, or chips, or even a jacket potato but every place we went to didn’t have pasties or chips, and were OUT of jacket potatoes! eventually we found this goat cheese and sweet potato pie, and settled for it because we were hungry. it was really good though.
i think this is supposed to be st. george and the dragon?
fish!
london… home of ugly babies
and really ugly fishpeople!
what do they call a guy who can’t hold on to his porpoise?
the most bizarre statue i think i’ve ever seen.
“pardon me, but have you seen the rest of my head? i’m quite perturbed.”
next page: st. pauls, tea, and buckingham palace!
St. Paul’s Cathedral
we didn’t actually go inside st. paul’s, knowing we’d see other cathedrals and being REALLY exceptionally stingy that
day for some reason. so i took pictures of the statue outside:
Afternoon Tea at Fortnum & Mason’s
yeah, we went to the most expensive place to have tea that doesn’t have a dress code. sue us, we’re tourists. 🙂
Buckingham Palace
“why won’t the queen mum return my calls?”
this is so expressive. i loved it. part of the queen victoria memorial.
how did they sculpt my life’s aspirations so accurately?
next page: accosted by animals at st. james park!
St. James Park
the squirrels let us get so close. i kept wondering how close…
we got our answer. bold little buggers. richard was just telling me though that he once saw a squirrel jump on a woman in this park 🙂
this picture cracks me up for some reason.
ken watches the greylag geese
goose roadblock
lorenz had good taste in animal companions.
this waterfowl was strange. it had white skeleton-like feet! never got a great picture of it though.
next page: goose stampede!
St. James Park
then the man with the bread came and it all went to hell.
don’t they look like fat little nazi stormtroopers? or maybe people in the T station.
the bread eventually ran out.
i’d love to be the caretaker of this park! i assume that’s who this cottage is for?
next page: big ben and london at night!
Big Ben and the London Eye
around this time it started raining. it all felt so romantic. and wet.
Back to Blackheath
ah, london at night.
london. where even the lampposts need excessive decorations with cherubs and such.
where even stuff left on the sidewalk is picturesque.
chips at last!!!!!! we got them in blackheath though. grrr, london, grrr.
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1st day in England: Blackheath, Greenwich, and Piccadilly Circus
part 2 of my england collection of photos. these are actually OF england the country, too, so perhaps they’ll be a little more exciting than the last set. ;P
this is the front door of the house where we stayed all week. the fox door knocker is a testament to the large urban red fox population in the area. i actually saw one in the next door neighbor’s backyard through the bathroom window, but didn’t get to my camera in time to get a definitive picture. the knocker will have to do.
as soon as we got in we felt compelled to have tea. i fell in love with one of their coffee cups.
on our way through blackheath to greenwich. cats don’t like their pictures taken, so i must tell you that the cat looked like an intentional window dressing before i got the camera out. now it’s trying to hide itself.
blackheath!
some monument to the queen. not like there’s many of THOSE in england, right?
greenwich!
there was some weird clock exhibit at the greenwich observatory, one section asking kids to write down when time “stood still for them.” this answer was good, but the next is even more silly (ATTN SPOILERS LOL):
next page: greenwich park!
greenwich has a nice park with lots of pretty (and old) trees.
we were quite taken with them.
we found a deer sanctuary in the park!
i guess there’s a halfway decent picture of a fox visiting the deer.
one thing about england is that their phrasing is so polite. you should have seen the warning signs in the airport customs area.
next page: “the heath” and piccadilly circus!
the ravens also didn’t like having their pictures taken. so after a while i gave up and focused on the pretty tower on “the heath”
here we are lying on some dead people! how romantic!
on the underground. dr. who series 1 was right!
this really disturbed me.
piccadilly circus is just beautiful at night. and look! doubledecker buses! can it get any more british? CAN IT??!?!
the famous piccadilly cupid!
then we went home to sleep. i don’t have a picture of that.
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dr who: mindscrape AND the master 2-parter are up!
eta: oops, forgot about the episode preceding these: mindscrape
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