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London Tower, Tower Bridge and more
Don’t know about you, but this is the first time I’ve ever been on an empty subway train: Hanging out with the Beefeater at the Tower of London: The last time we were here we did not see the armor...
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Changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
If you didn’t read the title, here’s your next clue: We were at Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard. The queen was there. Tomorrow she’s delivering the Queen’s Speech to Parliament....
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Travel day
Today we left London. We Ubered to the train station, the driver listening to the Queen address Parliament. I’d watched some of the procession go into Westminster before we left. On the train, there...
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Andiamo al cinema
(Extra material from our trip to London.) I found these three posters in an Italian restaurant in London. I took a few quick snapshots because, I figured, they’d one day be worth sharing. My apologies...
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The closest pastures are on your left
(Extra material from our trip to England.) As you travel over to Stonehenge in the late spring or early summer, you’ll see fields and fields and acres and acres of cowslip. Not a bad way to distract...
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Panoramas from Liberty
We were just installing some drawer pulls that we bought in London. Supposedly they were salvage from homes in India. Liberty is a high-end boutique kind of place. Outrageously cool stuff at often...
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Just good enough for a national museum’s front porch
Here we all are, getting set to learn what it means to be British at the British Museum. That’s not what you learn at the British Museum, actually, but we saw a lot of great artifacts. Here is a...
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British selfies
(A few extra shots from our last visit to London, because it is summertime and our trip was grand.) We were playing around with the selfie stick. Yes, we have one, and it facilitates the production of...
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In Tower Bridge
Here are a few photos from a terrific day in London. See more of it here. Except for the pedestrian sidewalk, I did not know you could walk across the Tower Bridge. You can do it indoors, across the...
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The tank banks
I saw this piggy bank at Stonehenge. At the time I had no idea about the history behind it, which is, like most history, rather interesting. It comes from a World War 1 British fund raising campaign....
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