Early Aug 2013 - Images of London

Covent Garden - An Italian musical performance

 

 

Covent Garden - Charlie Chaplin having a bit of fun with an audience member

 



Driving British style



Trafalgar Square - Peace - country flags (kudos to the artist....when it rains, he'll have to redo the work)

Hahn/Cock at Trafalgar Square - by Katharina Fritsch of Essen, Germany.  A sculpture of a familiar domestic cockerel in ultramarine blue, made from glass fibre reinforced polyester resin and fixed on a stainless reinforced polyester resin.  Unveiled 25 July 2013

Near St. Paul Cathedral - remnants of "The Blitz;" a dentist office is now on the left side of the building.  Someone lives on the top floor, who paid 1.4 million pounds for it...apparently, no elevator exists)

 

Near St. Paul Cathedral - remnants of "The Blitz"

 

Near St. Paul Cathedral - remnants of "The Blitz"...now a garden blooms

Near the Museum of London

An apartment complex near the Museum of London, which is very expensive.  Many legal professionals live here.  A few ducks have made this place their home.

 

Guildhall Art Gallery - free entrance

 

Horse's Head...forgot where this was exactly in London

Victoria & Albert Museum - angel podium...isn't it beautiful?

Victoria & Albert Museum - ceiling deco

Victoria & Albert Museum - three person sculpture by Georg Baselitz

 

Natural History Museum - a dinosaur

Natural History Museum - an owl

Natural History Museum - a full view from the stairs

Trafalgar Square - what's with all the people?  Scottish football (soccer) fans, of course

Trafalgar Square - Scottish football fans gathering....a friendly match was to take place between Scotland vs. England later at the Wembley Stadium

 

Trafalgar Square - two Scottish football fans decide to climb the fountain, which by the way appears to be foaming with a LOT of beer

Trafalgar Square - one Scottish football fan has made it to the top of the fountain, now helping his buddy up as well

Churchill War Rooms - posters from WWII

 

 

Churchill War Rooms - typewriter

Crossing the street in London....watch out for those cars, they don't yield to pedestrians....also, the driver is on the left side, not right side.

English strawberries....juicy and quite sweet....now I know why it's a big thing here, with the cream on top :)

The time is 5 minutes to 3pm, or as the British like to say, 55 minutes past 2.

On these grounds, Henry VIII liked to go jousting and/or also hunting

 

To find out a street name, you got to look at the building itself...no separate street signs.

Westminster Abbey - here William & Kate got married on Fri, Apr 29, 2011....yes, I watched this on TV at 6am EST :)

St. Margaret's Church - right next to Westminster Abbey.  It is here where Winston Churchill married Clementine, who was 10 yrs his junior.  In the marriage documents (on display at the church), it states that Winston at 33 was a bachelor, while Clementine at 23 was a spinster.  Really???  A spinster??? They couldn't say bachelorette?

A statue of Queen Elizabeth and her husband