United Kingdom

Thought I'd just number the majority of these and have DS (and Baa/Barb) help fill in the details tomorrow night.

What they could watch on the flight over

Just a little bit colder than Saskatchewan (the last 3 winters we hit -52 C....for a very short while) in the middle of winter (with windchill ;)

DS got a kick out of the Brits who looked at him in disbelief when he was wearing shorts when it was +10 C. He felt warm enough.... they thought he was crazy. ;) They also found curly hair on a young man strange....most hadn't seen it before (so they said to him).

Two of his maternal great grandparents immigrated from London. He says he now knows where the females in the family get their small stature from. He also figures it's the amount of walking done in London that keeps the majority of Brits lean.


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Getting close now

Now he knows he's arrived

London, England

The majority of his pics focus on statues, gargoyles, and the decorative architecture there.

One of the first pics on his camera ;)

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Moored by their lodgings.......Cutty Sark



The Cutty Sark

The Cutty Sark is the most famous tea clipper built, and is the only one to survive. She is now in dry dock at Greenwich.

She was launched at Dumbarton on the River Clyde, Scotland, in 1869. The name comes from Robert Burns' poem, Tam O'Shanter; Tam meets a group of witches, most of whom are ugly, but for Nannie, who is young and beautiful and is described as wearing only a "cutty sark", i.e., a short chemise or shirt. The ship's figurehead is a representation of this witch.

The Cutty Sark's sleek lines and enormous area of sail made her the fastest ship in the race via the Cape of Good Hope for the then particularly money-spinning tea trade with China. Unluckily for her owners, the Suez Canal was opened in the same year as her launch, which is not navigable by sailing ships. Her last cargo of tea was carried in 1877.
http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/cutty.htm

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I think he was (is ;) considering applying here

:)

1. Old Royal Navy Academy in Greenwich

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2. Old Royal Navy Academy in Greenwich

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3.Old Royal Navy Academy in Greenwich

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4. England's Mounted Police

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5. St. Paul's Cathedral

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6. St. Paul's Cathedral

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8. St. Paul's Cathedral

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9. St. Paul's Cathedral

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11. Horse Guard outside Buckingham Palace

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14. Trafalgar Square

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16. Millineum Eye

17. Gate by St. Paul's Cathedral

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21. Royal Courts of Justice

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22. Theatre

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24. Trafalgar Square

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27. Canadian Gate

28. Close-up

29. Buckingham Palace

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31. Royal Family Entrance

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