Digital Photography by Kurt & Victoria (except those taken by whoever was handy) with a Fujifilm MX-1000
between November 18th and December 1, 2000
- Sunday, November 19th. We took a sightseeing bus tour of the city on a doubledecker. Umbrella store near Russell Square.
- Victoria @ Piccadilly Circus.
- Kurt @ Piccadilly Circus.
- Arches & buildings near Piccadilly.
- Stonework on building adjacent to Westminster Abbey.
- Kurt @ north transcept of Westminster.
- It had been raining off and on that morning, but by 1 p.m. or so the clouds were blowing away and the sun was able to make it through. Gleaming Big Ben Tower with London Eye beyond.
- Victoria, signs & tower from Westminster Bridge.
- Kurt & Victoria with Parliament in background. Thanks German-guy for snapping the pic.
- On Monday we set out across Russell Square toward the British Museum, just catty-corner across the park.
- Colossal lion Temple of Ishtar, Assyria c.865 BC. Archaeologists of the Empire thought nothing of crating up multi-ton chunks like this and bringing 'em home.
- Rosetta Stone.
- There were whole galleries full of Egyptian monumental stone figures. This red granite head is of an unidentified Pharaoh, probably Amenhotep III. It's 9'6" tall, from Temple of Mut, Thebes.
- One panel of the Elgin Marbles.Bust with mosaic in background.
- Kurt with fellow citizens of the polis.
- The London Eye. View from around 300 feet up.
- Victoria does eat peas.
- On Tuesday we set out for St. Paul's and the Museum of London. Clandestine St. Paul's Cathedral shot. Another, straight up. Victoria and inscription.
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- There was a large exhibit of life in Roman London at the Museum of London. Recreation of kitchen. Schoolkids everywhere! How the better off lived.
- Roman, then Medieval London wall.
- Detail from Royal Carriage housed at the museum.
- On Wednesday we journeyed to Knightsbridge to the Victoria & Albert Museum.
- One of a vast number of sculptures. Another. And Poseidon, I think.
- There were two huge "plaster galleries" of reproductions. Victoria and Trajan's Column.
- Detail of Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. And a close-up.
- Ceremonial gold and silver/
- On Thanksgiving we headed out of London by train NW to Banbury. From there, by cab, we got to Wroxton. Our room. Great Hall.
- Exploring the village. Victoria and thatched cottage. Victoria in cemetery. Scary village church.
- Taking refuge from the damp and chill, Kurt raises a pint of bitter at the North Arms.
- Wroxton Abbey. Abbey grounds with groundskeeper strolling in bottom right.
- Tapestry.
- Kurt & Victoria at Thanksgiving Dinner.
- Dr. Baldwin carves the turkey.
- Kurt & Victoria having some fun in the Buttery afterwards.
- On Friday we went to Stratford-Upon-Avon. Kurt in front of Shakespeare's birthplace. Victoria was showing me around.
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- Typical Stratford scene: 400-year old building now housing Pizza Hut.
- View from our room at Wroxton.
- On Saturday we returned to London and back out to the NE suburbs. We stayed with Piggo and Sooz near Epping.
- On Sunday the four of us went to Canterbury and entered its narrow streets.
- Canterbury Cathedral Close Gates.
- Strolling musicians. Organ grinder.
- It was chilly and breezy (but CLEAR) as we looked at the Cathedral. Stained glass. Down the nave.
- Cathedral tower.
- Steve and Sooz cooked up a great Sunday feast for us.
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- On Monday we headed back to London, got into our new hotel, and headed to Covent Garden for shopping and supper.
- At Rules I had my first "classic" English roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding and etc. It was delicious!
- Victoria Station.
- More sightseeing Tuesday. Gargoyle at Westminster Abbey.
- Westminster cloisters.
- We strolled up Whitehall past Downing Street. Here, the Queen's Guard stand vigilant.
- Kurt & pigeons @ Trafalgar Square.
- St. Martin's-in-the-Fields from National Gallery.
- Victoria at our second hotel, the Euro, in Cartwright Garden.
- On Wednesday we set out to St. Pancras Station, where we caught a King's Cross Circle Line tube for Tower Hill.
- Tabasco ad in tube station.
- We enterthe Tower of London keep.
- Victoria and The White Tower. V with Yeoman Warder.
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- Gin and Beer, an ancient woodcarving.
- Guards in front of crown jewels treasury.
- V and Tower Bridge.
- Last look at the tower.
- Hung, Drawn & Quartered pub.
- On Thursday we took a coach tour. Simon, our tour guide takes us into Old Sarum, overlooking Salisbury.
- Ruins of Anglo-Saxon Old Sarum.
- Cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral. More.
- Interior of Salisbury.
- Fan-vaulting in Chapter House.
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- Salisbury exterior. Additional buttressing required when tower was completed and walls showed signs of collapse.
- Where we had lunch.
- Victoria at Stonehenge.
- Kurt at Stonehenge.
- Stones at Stonehenge.
- More Stonehenge.
- Nearby Avebury.
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That's all, folks....
