To celebrate my 40th birthday, my sister gave us some airline miles, my mother came up to watch the kids, and Chantal and I went off to London for a long weekend!
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The sunken garden at Kensington Palace. A pleasant sight for the jet-lagged, barely-slept new arrival! | ||
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A wonderful facade on Knightsbridge near Hyde Park. (The Mandarin Oriental, which used to be the Hyde Park Hotel, I believe.) |
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Chantal resting in St. James Park, with Buckingham Palace in the background. |
| The Thames, looking West from Westminster Bridge, with the London Eye to the right. | |
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London double-decker buses, from the top of one. |
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The Portobello Road, with facades in all different colors. |
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A residential terrace in Notting Hill, across the street from our hotel. |
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A "pillar box", or traditional mail box. This must be a fairly rare one, with the initials of Edward VII Rex (reigned 1901-1910). |
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Our hotel's "sitting" room, overlooking a private garden. These private gardens are shared among the residents of the surrounding buildings of the block. (This is a panorama built from three portrait-format pictures.) | ||
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Market stalls in Portobello Road. |
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Boats on the Grand Union Canal, near Little Venice. |
| A panorama looking West from St. Paul's Cathedral's Golden Gallery, 530 steps up. |
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And one looking East. | ||
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Back on ground level, looking up at the dome of St. Paul's. |
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Ye Olde Cock Tavern in Fleet Street, a favorite of Dr. Johnson, and of T.S. Eliot. |
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Richard at Greenwich, with the Naval College in the background. |
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A fun gatehouse in Greenwich Park. |
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Flowers in Greenwich Park. |
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Chantal in the herb garden in Greenwich Park. |
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Greenwich, with the yards of the Cutty Sark in the distance. |
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A pub in Greenwich. |
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The Tower Bridge, from a river boat. |
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The London Eye, the world's largest Ferris wheel (400-odd feet tall). |
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Houses of Parliament wih Big Ben on the right. |
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The Chelsea Physic Garden, created by the Apothecaries' Society in 1673 to hold plants related to medicine. |
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Wisteria on a building facade in Notting Hill, one of many very fine and luxuriant examples. | ||
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These pictures were taken with a Canon S100 digital camera. Color balancing, cropping, etc. was done with Adobe PhotoShop LE. Panoramas were built with PanaVue Image Assembler.