Trip to London recently (04.02.10-07.02.10) with Niels while he was briefly visiting europe.
(Sorry this took so long to get around to Niels)
-"Way Out" - London St. Pancras International - For some reason, we were greatly entertained with some of the British terms for things, like the fact that the train terminated at this station.
-Eurostar @ London St.G Pancras International - Gotta love High Speed trains, and the great European rail network
-Green Park - Great weather made for lots of nice walking
-Green Park - big beautiful trees and wide open spaces in the heart of London
-Canadian War Memorial - Green Park
-Canadian War Memorial - Green Park - Really nice to stumble across this, kinda humbling, or that's the way I kinda felt
-Maple Leaves - Canadian War Memorial
-Inscription on the Canadian War Memorial - Green Park
-Bobby at a cross-walk - Green Park
-Royal Guard coming down Constitution Hill
-Gates at Buckingham Palace
-Me in front of Buckingham Palace
-Queen Victoria Memorial - Buckingham Palace
-Crowds at Buckingham Palace
-Crowds at Queen Victoria Memorial
-Panorama of Buckingham Palace
-Royal Guard Practising
-Royal Guard playing Copacabana
-More royal guard, coming down The Mall
-Plant covered wall
-Horses Guards Parade
-Horses Guards Parade - Outside the Cavalry Museum (which was not worth the entry fare)
-The Sherlocke Holmes
-Golden Jubilee Bridge towards the London Eye
-Houses of Parliament from the London Eye
-The framework of the London Eye - Golden Jubilee Bridge in the background
-Looking down the Thames to Waterloo Bridge (foreground) from the Eye
-Niels and me on the Thames across from the houses of parliament
-Nice Ride - (for some reason or another, I've developed some sort of obsession it seems)
-Westminster Abbey
-All of London in one glorious shot - Big Ben, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, double decker buses and black cabs
-some heavily secured/guarded fence
-Rotten Row - Hyde Park (where the people with $$$ come to ride in the city)
-The Serpentine - Hyde Park (supposedly London is the greenest city in Europe, due to all of its parks)
-And I was actually trying to use the phone, it wasn't just a gratuitous shot, since for some reason my phone wouldn't let me make outgoing calls
-St. Paul's Cathedral - Can you find Waldo? (~Niels~)
-There he is - damn, that is one really big cathedral
-The Tate Modern, Millenium Bridge - view from St. Paul's Stone Gallery
-Climbing the Dome - St. Paul's
-Those'd be some mighty tight stairways and doors - I guess they're not made to accommodate the Dutch, eh Niels?
-St. Paul's on the Thames side
-small car BIG CITY - I admit, this is kinda how I wish we got to tour around the city - classic Mini's
-Big City - the details (for anyone making a trip to London in the near future)
-Millennium Bridge - looking back across towards St. Paul's
-The Globe Theatre - home of the Bard
-London Bridge (or at least I think it is) - but it wasn't falling down while we were there
-Southwark Crown Ct
-Tower Bridge
-HMS Belfast
-Me at Tower Bridge
-Trafalgar Square
-Tim Hortons - In London?
-Lamborghini Gallardo - I <3 Soho
-Of course the Lamborghini has to be white - oh, there goes another Bentley
-the matching M6 and M5 respectively
-Pack of London cab's at the ready
-Behind that train, the filming location for platform 9 & 3/4 at Kings Cross Station- for the Harry Potter fans
-Niels packed and ready to head off to Hogwarts - see you on the other side
-London St Pancras International
-Antwerp Central Station - Trains on 3 floors, one above the next.
