Easterly London
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selenakDue to being in London, I won't be able to indulge in my annual pictorial admiration of our Franconian Easter Wells, but London at Easter isn't half bad a sight, either.:).
Let me share some more London with you below the cut.
To make a thematic tie to my theatre outings so far, a sculpture for Oscar Wilde which is behind St. Martin in the Fields:
Buckingham Palace:
A sight from St. James Park:
Westminster Abbey
The Houses of Parliament
St. Paul's
The Globe:
The Golden Hind, Francis Drake's ship:
Tower and Tower Bridge of London:
Some overall Tower impressions:
Traitor's Gate, through which the accused were brought via the Thames:
The White Tower from two sides
Bedchamber of Edward Ist:
Sir Walter Raleigh's study, from his second and final stint in the Tower under James:
St. Peter in Vincula. In front was the scaffold site, where Anne Boleyn, Katharine Howard, Jane Grey, Thomases More and Cromwell et all were executed. Anne Boleyn is buried inside - one of her ladies in waiting put her in a chest for arrows, as the king wouldn't provide a coffin - but it's not generally open to the public:
Matthew the Raven, currently vacationing at the Tower so the kingdom doesn't fall, bids you farewell:
There are more obelisks outside of Egypt than inside. Thirteen in Italy alone. But never led it be said the British didn't know how to collect obelisks as well (with Italian help, as this one I think was originally made ready for transport by Giovanni Belzoni):
What I didn't know before: at Trafalgar Square, they stage a Passion Play on Good Friday:
And with that Easterly image I leave you for now.
Let me share some more London with you below the cut.
To make a thematic tie to my theatre outings so far, a sculpture for Oscar Wilde which is behind St. Martin in the Fields:
Buckingham Palace:
A sight from St. James Park:
Westminster Abbey
The Houses of Parliament
St. Paul's
The Globe:
The Golden Hind, Francis Drake's ship:
Tower and Tower Bridge of London:
Some overall Tower impressions:
Traitor's Gate, through which the accused were brought via the Thames:
The White Tower from two sides
Bedchamber of Edward Ist:
Sir Walter Raleigh's study, from his second and final stint in the Tower under James:
St. Peter in Vincula. In front was the scaffold site, where Anne Boleyn, Katharine Howard, Jane Grey, Thomases More and Cromwell et all were executed. Anne Boleyn is buried inside - one of her ladies in waiting put her in a chest for arrows, as the king wouldn't provide a coffin - but it's not generally open to the public:
Matthew the Raven, currently vacationing at the Tower so the kingdom doesn't fall, bids you farewell:
There are more obelisks outside of Egypt than inside. Thirteen in Italy alone. But never led it be said the British didn't know how to collect obelisks as well (with Italian help, as this one I think was originally made ready for transport by Giovanni Belzoni):
What I didn't know before: at Trafalgar Square, they stage a Passion Play on Good Friday:
And with that Easterly image I leave you for now.
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