Here they are, for all of you who were saying, "Will you just SHUT UP and POST PHOTOS so we don't have to read countless paragraphs about every detail of every moment of every day?!?"
(Hopefully nobody was saying that, but I have been known to ramble, as Marni tells me.)
Anyway, I've got lots of pictures and some drawings too!!!
Plus, here is a link to a song calle
"Mountain" by Various Guises, the guitar-and-cello duet I heard in Camden the first night. (If you like them, check out the Soundcloud page for Blanche Ellis, the lead singer, as well. She has some good solo stuff.)
Pictures are mostly in order, but there are some extra categories too.
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| Hello London! |
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| Full size model of the Golden Hinde, in which Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe |
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| After-work crowds at a pub! They all look like this at 5pm on workdays! |
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| I wrote Needtobreathe lyrics on the wall of the Spiritual Bar :) |
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| My "Bix Fix" for the morning! |
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| Thames and London Eye from Westminster Bridge |
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| Houses of Parliament and Big Ben tower! |
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| Gateway to The Mall (which leads to Buckingham Palace) |
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| Birds in St. James's Park |
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| Notice the black swan . . . |
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| My favorite duck |
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| St. James's Park looking towards London Eye |
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| Buckingham Palace seen from St. James's Park |
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| Buckingham Palace! |
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| Canada Gate, which leads from Buckingham Palace into Green Park |
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| Green Park . . . beautiful! |
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| Busy day in Green Park! |
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| A more serene scene |
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| Royal Exchange |
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| Westminster Abbey! |
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| It's so weird to see the old pubs in the middle of the city . . . they look tiny compared to the towers around them! |
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| Houses of Parliament |
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| Buckingham Palace in the evening |
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| St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
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| St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
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| National Gallery |
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| Big Ben from Trafalgar Square |
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| Downpour in Trafalgar Square |
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| Russell Square, Bloomsbury |
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| Bloomsbury row houses |
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| People were watching the Smithfield Market bike race from upper windows! |
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| Racing on a penny-farthing bicycle |
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| Thames scene at sundown |
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| Tower of London |
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| William the Conqueror's bedroom, with replica furniture |
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| The White Tower, where the armor is |
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| Me at the Tower, with Tower Bridge in background |
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| Henry VIII's armor (I think this was from before he got fat!) |
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| Elementary, my dear Watson. |
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| Scenes from St. Regent's Park on a Sunday. Quite Impressionistic, don't you think? |
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| London Eye, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, etc. from Waterloo Bridge |
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| Skatepark on Queen's Walk |
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| Buskers on Queen's Walk |
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| Another river view |
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| Hustle and bustle on Queen's Walk |
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| Me and St. Paul's |
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| Blackfriars Bridge station |
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| St. Albans Abbey! |
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| The front half of the nave |
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| The rose window |
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| Ceiling of the crossing tower with Wars of the Roses coats of arms, and of course red & white roses |
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| The choir |
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| The main altar |
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| The watchers' box, where the monks kept an eye on the pilgrims who visited the shrine of St. Alban |
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| Lady's Chapel . . . soooo pretty! |
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| Shrine of St. Alban |
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| My Jane-Austen-style lunch spot |
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| The Abbey--here you can see how long the whole thing is! |
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| The oldest licensed pub in England (at least that's the claim) |
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| Verulamium Park (named after the old Roman name for St. Albans) with remains of Roman wall |
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| Roman mosaic floor and hypocaust at Verulamium Park |
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| St. Michael's Church in St. Albans |
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| The British Library! WOOT! |
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| Downpour at the plaza between St. Bart's Hospital and Smithfield Market |
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| Thames from Millennium Bridge . . . on the right that's the Shard, London's tallest skyscraper. |
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| Walking to Tower Bridge |
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| View of city center from Tower Bridge |
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| At night Tower Bridge lights up! |
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| Okay, I take that back. St. Paul's does have a pretty awesome interior. |
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Temple Bar, the old gateway between Fleet Street and the Strand. It was disassembled in the
1800s due to its blocking traffic flow, and was finally placed in a new location right between
St. Paul's and Paternoster Square. I walked through it every morning to get to the grocery store! |
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| Albert Memorial (I call it the Albert Shrine.) |
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| Royal Albert Hall |
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| The Underground. Or call it the tube if you like. :) |
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| My hostel room . . . I was bed 5. Had to perform a 3-step monkey maneuver to get onto my bunk! |
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| Breakfast room in hostel (obviously NOT at mealtime) |
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Outside of hostel. It was a cool old building that used to be the boys' choir school for St. Paul's.
St. Paul's Cathedral
(photographed at pretty much every time of the day & night, from every angle, and in every kind of weather)
Drawings!!!
Street near the Golden Hinde replica
Music at the Spiritual Bar
Buckingham Palace
Statues on Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace
Watercolor is finally becoming my friend . . .
Drawing from "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey" in the National Gallery
More drawings from the National Gallery.
Mom, Joanna and Emily . . . do any of these little ladies look familiar? :)
Drawn at the Tower of London
Since I couldn't take photos of it, here is Queen Elizabeth II's crown!
St. Paul's and Blackfriars Bridge
Blackfriars Bridge station
Countryside at St. Albans
And here are all my paintings from my wild spree at the V&A Museum!
FASHION GALORE!
Plus one more drawing of St. Paul's, done in 5 minutes before I left on the train to go home
It was quite a lovely time, as you can see.
FINIS.
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WOW!
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