Hyde Park London Animals - 23rd October 2014

Coot

Mute Swan

Great Crested Grebe

Magpie

Greylag Goose

Crane

Black-Headed Gull (Winter Plumage)

Coot

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Egyptian Goose

The Grey Squirrels are just nuts for nuts.

London England 23rd May to 2nd June 2013 - Part 2

Nelson's Column - Trafalgar Square

Seem's guarding the Queen was contracted out to M&M's

Tower of London, Home to the Crown Jewels




Child's Suit of Armour - 'Smallest in the World?'

Suit of Armour for 7' 6" Man - 'Largest in the world?'

Changing of the Guard

Anyone for Cold Drinks?



Oldest Irish Bar in London

Regent Street (Home of Shopping) - Celebrating the 60th Year of Elizabeth II as Queen

Who says the British can not Cook?

Royal Court of Justice - 'Fleet Street'

London England 23rd May to 2nd June 2013 - Part 1

Our trip to London started with a very full Hotel. We stayed at the Crowne Plaza, St James’s, however a small football match was taking place for something called “UEFA Final”. Our hotel had been taken over by the Borussia Dortmund supporters club. On Friday night we could not get to the guest bar as so many German supporters where there, On Saturday night it was like a ghost town and the bar was empty, this might have been due to Bayern Munich beating Dortmund 2 – 1 in the final.

Not sure what the Coldstream Guards would have thought about these uniforms?

 This is a must see theatre production. But beware! do not sit in the first 6 rows unless you are happy to get wet.



London Double-Decker Bus on Regent Street (The Shopping Area)

 



This Brandy cost £180 per shot! ($240)

Natural History Museum - It's Free to Enter

Big Ben

The London Eye - The ride takes 20 Minutes

Friendly British Traffic Police

The Queen's Royal Bentley

Coldstream Guard

Tower Bridge

London City Hall

The Shard - Tallest Tower in Western Europe with Public Viewing Platform

  

London - England - 25th August 2011

Notting Hill Carnival

 The Notting Hill Carnival started in 1964, and has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill London every year since over a 2 day period.

The Carnival can attract up to 2 million people making it the 2nd largest street festival in the world after the Rio Carnival held in Brazil.

The Carnival was originally introduced as a measure to improve race relations in the area

We were very lucky on our trip to London, as we did not know the Carnival was taking place until we arrived. We decided to attend the 1st day known as Children's Day (We were flying back to Peoria on the main day). This was held on the 25th August and most of the Carnival events were organised specifically for children.

We walked to the event past thousands of other spectators and police, however the atmosphere was friendly and every one was in party mood (Even the Police).

We found a good spot to watch the event, and just before the first parade arrived and the heaven's opened up, there were umbrellas everywhere, but fortunately the rain let up before the parade got to the point at which we were standing

Photo's from the Carnival.