I took a London walk in 2013.
Of course I carried my camera phone!
Some of these shots I thought funny, others quirky.
You tell me what you think!
The Trafalgar Square lion and the London Eye provided a taste of both merry and modern old/new England.
The last time we took a London walk, I photographed my daughter in a red phone booth talking on her cell phone.
Things have changed in four years. I laughed aloud when I saw this booth:
The phone didn’t work
Everywhere we turned on our London walk we saw references to famous people who have lived or visited the city.
Guess who slept here?
Or companies recognized the world over.
We loved looking at all the different buildings on our London walk.
Just up Fleet Street from Twinings Tea, I saw this interesting duo–undoubtedly of a building that once houses wire services, newspapers, or other news-worthy businesses.
In addition, doorways were gorgeous marble friezes!
Everywhere we looked, we saw something that made our jaw drop, or brought joy.
(Including dinner with our godson! He’s much taller than we remembered!)
We happened to be in London on the 98th anniversary of WWI nurse Edith Cavell’s death.
Shot by the Germans for helping soldiers escape Belgium to England, some thought her a spy.
The outcry at killing a woman was so huge, her death changed the opinion of many–to the negative–toward the Kaiser’s Germany.
Red poppies lay at the base of her statue.
We saw signs of British royalty.
He didn’t flinch when I took his photo.
The Beefeater carrying a machine gun seemed very odd and a bit scary to me.
It may have to do with my mental image of a Beefeater carrying a different and older type of weapon.
Obviously used to tourists, or an excellent soldier–maybe both–he didn’t react to me at all.
We were at Buckingham Palace when I took that photo.
In addition, I loved seeing dragons all over town.
We laughed at common food in the fish market!
I’d only read about turbots in English novels; I’d never actually seen one before.
British schoolteachers keep track of their students while on field trips by having them wear danger vests!
They were entering the Globe Theater, and we all saw them.
We carried an umbrella on our London walk but we never got wet!
When our feet ached, we climbed onto the top of a red double-decker bus and watched the London scenery pass.
A London walk is great way to see the city.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Michelle. Thanks for the brief tour of London. Julie
Nice gift for Thanksgiving – thanks!
Edith Cavell’s character seemed, from all accounts, to be so quintessentially English. She was truly part of that ‘gentle, obsolescent breed of heroes’ that this green and pleasant land cultivates. Thank you for mentioning her, Michelle.
Interesting how one death can change the tide of events. People around the world were so scandalized by her death, all sides did not execute another female spy for two years. Mata Hari was the next one killed for her war spying.
Was Cavell a spy? Shouldn’t a nurse have tried to help soldier escape out of occupied Belgium?