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A Short Constitutional
Thursday, February 06, 2003
A few days after arriving in London, Jeremy and I took what we thought at the time to be a lengthy stroll from Bloomsbury down through the West End and Westminster across the Thames to the South Bank. Now I do that walk without even blinking. At the time I think we thought we were intrepid explorers or something. Anyway, it made for some lovely photographs.
A mermaid statue in the fountain at Trafalgar Square. He looks so surprised to be in the middle of London. It's a bit sad. Behind him is the National Gallery. Trafalgar Square is pretty ripped-up at the moment; apparently they're improving its "pedestrian efficiency" by making it nearly impossible to get into for a year or so. Clever.
Rarrrrr. A lion in Trafalgar Square.
The Admirality Arch at the south end of the square. Virginia Woolf seems to reference it a lot. I was trying to get the really fantastic light that was coming through it, and I'm afraid it didn't really work out.
And I'm assuming we all know what this is.
Now this was very, very pretty. I normally don't go in for the really geeky touristy pictures, but this was too good to resist. (I hope this picture isn't too dark on your monitor -- it looks fantastic on my laptop...)
I think Dali would've approved of placing a giant steel wheel in front of a classical-looking building that displays his work. There's certainly something surreal about the London Eye. Maybe it's the fact that they call it an Eye, for God's sake. That's just creepy. And this picture doesn't really put across how friggin' big it is.
St. Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Footbridge. It had gotten a bit too dark for more pictures at this point, sadly.
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