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Good Morning, everybody,
It’s cold and rainy here, but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying the sights via someone else!
Today we’re off to London and Auntie Anne is our guide!
Before I forget, please submit photos, folks – we need content! Don’t worry about “hogging” the submissions, I’ll try to break them up as appropriate.
On that note, let’s explore London!
These pictures are from the London portion of the trip. We did four days on our own in London before the tour started – and fell in love with how easy it is to get and go everywhere via Tube. It was so neat to see the places I’ve read about all my life!

Trafalgar Square

Absolutely had to visit St. Pancras station, which is so Victorian.

This is the back of Buckingham Palace. We did a tour of the state rooms and the gardens. For a palace, it has a cozy feel – there’s not the sense of history I saw at Windsor, or the grandeur of Blenheim.

This is the front of Buckingham Palace, with the Queen Victoria Memorial

This is the grand escalator hall at Harrods.

We did a boat trip down the Thames to Greenwich. This is the Tower Bridge from the boat.
John Revolta
I live in Trafalgar Square
With four lions to guard me!
Fountains and statues all over the place
And the Metropole staring me right in the face!
I know it’s a trifle drafty, but I look at it this way, you see-
If it’s good enough for Nelson, it’s quite good enough for me!
Amir Khalid
Did you by any chance check out Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross Station?
JPL
Wonderful pictures. If I had a bucket list, London would be on it.
Phylllis
My dream trip. Thanks for the pics.
ET
@Amir Khalid: I got to see it when I took my niece and her best friend – both big HP fans – on their graduation trip. There was a long line to recreate the cover of one of the books.
I love London. Spent a semester there back in college and it was a great experience. Had a nice long trip back a few months ago and was reminded again why I love it. I recommend Hampton Court as a day trip. The gardens are great.
TS (the original)
I adored London – and can but quote Samuel Johnson
It is everything you ever thought a city should be and more. Never enough time & always somewhere else to go.
Auntie Anne
@Amir Khalid: We did! our hotel was one Tube stop away from Kings Cross, so we went through that station every day. The line to see that platform was never less than an hour, so one day, we just gritted our teeth and went for it. I didn’t get any pictures that were good, unfortunately. I am still waiting for my travel buddy to share her album. . .
arrieve
I used to have an uncle in Pimlico. I once spent a month with his family and no other city will ever be as wonderful to me as London seemed then. But I still go back every chance I get.
TomatoQueen
I was there in the summer of the Queen’s Jubilee, 1977, last week of July through bank holiday weekend at the end of August. By those views at least it is comforting to see not much has changed since then.
Sloane Ranger
Ah, the photo of St Pancras takes me back. When I was working I commuted into St Pancras every weekday and it was always magical. The Victorian architecture, the shops in the under Croft and the Eurostar terminal. It was hell during the renovation but worth it.
Cathie from Canada
When we were at Harrods in 2009, it still had the “tribute to Dodi and Dianna” escalator. Very strange and also very sad – — for anyone who doesn’t know, Mohamed El Fayed who owned Harrods until 2010 was Dodi Fayed’s father and he was never ceased to believe in the conspiracy theory that their deaths were actually a political assassination.
Being in London made me understand a little better the sense of “ownership” that the English have about their royalty – they live just down the street! Many of those elaborate and historic palaces we see on TV are actually next door to local neighbourhood pubs and the places people shop. We went to a pizza shop near Hyde Park which had an elaborate mural on the wall paying tribute to Dianna. Turned out she and the young princes used to go to this shop occasionally for pizza — Kensington Palace was just a block away.
J R in WV
Great pictures of what is obviously one of the great cities of Europe!
Thanks for this great sunny slide show.
Mike in NC
Been to London four times since 2003 — most recently in August — and cannot get enough of it.
stinger
I’ve actually seen a few of these places myself! I hope some day to return and see them all! Thanks for the great photos, Auntie Anne!