The Queen' place

We stood almost directly in front of Buckingham Palace. The British cops and security have this whole thing very well regulated. Traffic continues to flow onto the many roads approaching the palace up until just 5 minutes before the troops show up. During the march traffic is stopped until that particular military unit gets inside the palace grounds and out of the street. Then the cops allow the traffic back on the roads until a few minutes before the next unit marches up. Very efficiently done.

Day Fourteen (London)

July 26th 2006
"Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room; It would not out at windows, nor at doors. There is so hot a summer in my bosom That all my bowels crumble up to dust" It be-ith hotter than Hades in yon Londontowne. Hark, I doth require better conditioning of the air than the mere spinning of tri blades of plastique in my tiny window. Methinks I shall perish in this Stygian cave forlorn. Not onl ... read more

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