Back On British Soil!

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August 3rd 2007

Published: May 30th 2009

Well, after a good eight months in Latin America it was nice to be back on some what familiar ground. So for a few days we would check out the streets of London as well as catch up with my Aunt and Uncle who I haven't seen in a long time and it was great to introduce my new Wife who they seemed to warm to very quickly but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. We arrived after a few hours flight fro... Read Full Entry

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St Paul's Cathedral

The cathedral is built of Portland stone in a late Renaissance style that is England's sober Baroque. Its impressive dome was inspired by St Peter's Basilica in Rome. It rises 365 feet (108 m) to the cross at its summit.

The Tate Modern

The London Millennium Footbridge

Londoners nicknamed the bridge the Wobbly Bridge after crowds of pedestrians felt an unexpected swaying motion on the first two days after the bridge opened.

Tate Modern

The Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online[2], part of the group now known simply as Tate.

Tate Modern

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.

Over Population

Some thing going on at the Tate about how the world is becoming seriously over populated at an exponential rate.........

Population of London

Fairly modest compared to some of the other cities.

Millenium Footbridge

Shakespeare's Globe

The modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997. It is approximately 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre.

Shakespeare's Globe

The original was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613. A second Globe Theatre was rebuilt on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.

Miry outside a British pub

Spartan

Random Spartan sculpture!?!

London Skyline

Just about see the large er........bullitt building in the background.

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream.

London 2007 - 082

Miry!

Her first English pub lunch, it was fish and chips. Almost brought a tear to my eye.

26th August 2010

Potential Traveller
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South West Trains Map.
What is the pioinrt in displaying the network on a map with such a heavy cast over the detail that the station names cannot be read.

31st October 2010

Sue Parrish
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Size
This map is unreadable.

20th December 2010

anonymous
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too small

24th February 2011

Mandy Jenkins
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comment on what
cant see a bloody thing

14th April 2011

anonymous
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too small.