Whats London Called?

Current City: London

So if Los Angeles is the City of Angels, and New York is the City that Never Sleeps, and Rome is the Eternal City, what’s London?

Been keeping quite busy the last few days, meeting up with Jones and Casey and getting a guided tour of London. What sucks is that when I plugged my memory card into the reader, it decided to corrupt it and erase all the pictures I took yesterday. There was, naturally, only one thing I could do about that; go back and retake all the pictures again today! This actually turned out well, as I got to see Tower Bridge lit up and night.

Here are just a few of the 371 pictures taken thus far (I know, only 371... I need to step it up a bit...)

Camden Market

This place used to be horse stables and is now an open-air market (thus the equine motif). The individual stables have been turned into shop stalls.

Parliament! Technically you can’t see Big Ben, as that’s the bell located within the clock tower.

Trafalgar Square from the steps of the National Gallery.

Chilling on a park bench in Green Park (Buckingham Palace is in the background through the trees) Not Shown: the crazy religious lady who accosted and tried to convert us.

Size? I always did consider it to be more of a question...

Timber Wave, a public art exhibit outside of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Inside the Science Museum. So much incredible stuff I had to come back a 2^nd time. Warning: very geeky posts to follow.

Goddard rocket; the first solid-fuel rocket ever.

Listening Post: very cool installation; each screen displays snippets of conversation randomly pulled from internet chats and forums.

Babbage’s Difference Engine #2: basically a giant mechanical computer.

Prefect cross-section pulled from the fuselage of a Japan Airlines 747.

Main gallery at the Natural History Museum.

Life-size replica of a Blue Whale, with various whale skeletons above.

The o2. The actual arena is inside the dome, along with several movie theatres, performance halls, another museum, and dozens of restaurants. It’s very big.

Canada Water Tube Station!

Strolling through the Docklands; a recently built-up section of London. Very modern architecture, doesn’t feel at all like London. A lot of international banks have their headquarters here. Canary Wharf is the building on the left.

Strolling though Hyde Park. My quick stroll lasted well over 2 hours. It’s a very large park.

Tower Bridge at dusk. (Not London Bridge, apparently that’s a common misconception).

The Tower of London at night from across the Thames.

Tower Bridge and London City Hall at night.

That’s just a small portion of what I’ve seen so far. Heading to Edinburg first thing tomorrow morning to meet back up with Jones and check out Scotland!

And now, for my last night here, I will see the city off in a way most befitting London: with a pint.

Or two.

Cheers.