Later, at St. Martin in-the-Fields, near Covent Garden |
Dinner in the crypt |
Good food, but kind of creepy... |
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Later, at St. Martin in-the-Fields, near Covent Garden |
Dinner in the crypt |
Good food, but kind of creepy... |
Entrance to the British Museum |
Interior "grounds" |
Big Egyptian stuff |
Assyrian lion hunt |
Babylonian property marker |
Rosetta stone and me |
Elgin Marbles; they had a very defensive pamphlet about rights to the Elgin Marbles, how they came by them, why they are not going to give them back to the Greeks, etc. |
Paleolithic handaxes, always a favorite |
Bust of Augustus, from the Roman tour |
Roman-Briton I have always liked |
James Smith and Sons umbrellas, an icon |
Festive street near Oxford Circus |
"...nothing do in vain"--um, do blogs count? |
At the Imperial War Museum |
I love Haynes...right up there with Churchill, the Beatles, Minis, J. M. W. Turner, Bombay Sapphire.... |
Look, kids, it's Big Ben!
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Some of the Houses of Parliament
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The Churchill statue at Westminster, which I have never
cared for; makes him look like a gorilla in an over-coat
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Oliver Cromwell...cultural tourism enemy #1;
should be "slighted," I think, just in fairness
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War cabinet room; all original; the Imperial War Museum
has done a wonderful job of retaining and preserving all the
original material; all of it
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The prime minister's room in the "bunker"
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Salisbury Cathedral, highest tower in UK, one of the highest in Europe |
Nave |
Choir, or Quire, as the Brits say |
Cloisters; alas, pix were not permitted in the chapter house |
Downtown Salisbury, Sunday afternoon |
Stonehenge |
Horse head, ground view |
More |
The manger, a natural hill at the foot of the figure, unnaturally flattened, where the horse is said to feed at night |