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Its hard to describe how impressive this is in person. It is a huge atrium with the glass dome, the structure in the center is the reading room.
Covent Garden, a huge market with shops, restaurants, and street performers, wherein we spent either too much time (Frank), or just the right amount of time (Sue).
Piccadilly Circus
The Bull and Mouth, another excellent pub recommended to us by the folks at the Museum Tavern. I had my first taste of Bangers and Mash here; Not at all bad, tasty sausage and huge portions, washed down with a pint of bitter (Young's).
On the boat tour of the Thames to Greenwich, this photo was taken looking back at the Tower Bridge after passing under it.
The "Wibbly-Wobbly" bridge was closed 48 hours after it first opened in June of 2000 due to excessive swaying. Caroline and Kate's father, Peter, was among the few to experience it, having made a point of being there when it opened. A year and a half later, the bridge was reopened after a dampening system was added to eliminate the swaying. Some suggested that the original swaying was a sort of 'dampening system', at least it had that risk for anyone trying to stay out of the Thames while crossing over it.
Needed to include one photo from the Tube. The warning "Mind the Gap" is made necessary by the fact that not all the trains fit snugly up to the platforms, hence the gap as you enter or exit. Thanks to Caroline's knowledge of the local transportation, we made extensive use of the tube and buses. London has an impressive public transportation system. You can get anywhere, and get there fifteen different ways, which is particularly important since at any given time ten of the ways will be down.
Its a park in Soho, but I'm not sure if its actually called "Soho Park". Doubtless, one of you Londoners will set us straight on this. (4-4-10: Per Caroline, this is Golden Park.) Regardless, it was a beautiful, quite spot where we sat on a bench and read the morning papers.
Per requirement of the London Tourists Compulsory Photographs Agreement of 1992, here is a photo of Big Ben. (I am aware that Big Ben actually refers to the bell within the tower, but I am erroneously refering to the structure as 'Big Ben' as specified in the Tourist Astounding Ignorance of London's History and Architecture Act of 1951.)
The Savoy hotel, legendary brithplace of the Martini, wherein Caroline, Sue, and I had cocktails among the hoi poli and conspicuously people-watched before heading to the theatre.
After the Savoy, we met-up with Kate at the Lyceum for 'The Lion King', a tremendous show. The music, sets, costumes, and puppetry were brilliant.
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