7.5 hours of knee-crunching fun
7.5 hours of knee-crunching fun
We have company
Ireland
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We have arrived! 10.5 hours later.
Our first meal - delightful!
Ted forgot keys to R&S's, so we dragged our bags thru London for the day.
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We took a bus tour of the city.
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The London Eye ride -- more later.
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Aliens have built a building
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After train ride to Gravesend, Lynn calls R&S.
The bus stop we became very familiar with
Toilets and Pocahontas-- that way
R&S's apartment, now former.
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Front of apartment
Gravesend shopping street
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Pedestrian tube of Waterloo Station, London
We will take this high-speed train to BE later.
A pod of the London Eye.
New friends from Germany
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What else could I do?
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Inescapable logo
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Microsoft promotion in train station
Buckingham Palace
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At the Royal Mews (stables)
Lotus Elise
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Tower Bridge
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Sculpture in front of city hall
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They're here!
Old graphic re-depiction of actual accident
Bridge engine room
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Onn the way home to Gravesend, waiting for next train
Victoria & Albert Museum
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View into one-foot-wide *model* of room!
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A large horn accident
Dr. Sudlow, I presume?
Dale Chihuly glass
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Six inches wide -- paper!
The view while waiting for the Gravesend bus
On the road to Brighton
Cam
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The dark gray and while stone is native flint
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Brave Cam
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The Royal Pavilion
Actors *goofing* by following girl
How can they park there with that color?
Brighton Beach
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Brighton Pier
C, S & R
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Entrance to Elaine's
View from S's old loft
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Don't know what purpose these serve -- anybody?
Try reading (from *left* side of road) at 30 MPH
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More flint
Found art in situ
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Canterbury
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Canterbury Cathedral
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Last day in London
YOU (are at St. Jame's Park)
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Must march “duck-walk” style to avoid collisions
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Unison drums -- WOW!
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Wanted to see interior but was too smoky!
British Museum -- the Rosetta Stone
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Tour guide
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Stone mosaic, not fabric!
Ouch
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Last England photo -- on to Belgium!