Visit in London
Few days in London visiting Andrew and his family and sight seeing
- Day 1
Starting at Westminster Bridge with London Eye in the background.
[views: 1594/0/0]London Eye at River Thames bank
[views: 1612/0/0]One more London Eye
[views: 1562/0/0]Houses of Parliament with Big Ben over the river
[views: 1644/0/0]Guards at Buckingham palace
[views: 1577/0/0]St. James Park fountain (just in front of Buckingham Palace)
[views: 1565/0/0]- Victoria and Albert Museum (Kensigton)
Entrance to the museum (it's free and actually pretty interesting)
[views: 1625/0/0]Plaster copy of Trajan's Column in Rome. It's too tall so they had to split it in half. They made the copy in 19th century and actually now it's better legible than the original, which deteriorated meanwhile due to acid rains
[views: 1663/0/0]Copy of David
[views: 1609/0/0]Copy of me?
[views: 1651/0/0]And wow! They even have a copy of St. George statue at Prague Castle!
[views: 1626/0/0]Japanese art
[views: 1664/0/0]Boat made of ivory
[views: 1595/0/0]Japanese warrior's outfit
[views: 1600/0/0]Japanese swords
[views: 1601/0/0]- Outside again...
Passing the Museum of natural history - we will come back!
[views: 1672/0/0]Hyde park
[views: 1609/0/0]Hyde Park - lake
[views: 1642/0/0]Some guys playing frisbee in Hyde Park
[views: 1641/0/0]Street lights apply for horses, too...
[views: 1609/0/0]Dinner at Sushi train
[views: 1594/0/0]I know this is bad photo. But you've got to believe us: that guy in the back is a famous Indonesian pop star!!! And he ate in the same sushi train with us!!!;-)
[views: 1626/0/0]Famous mall Harrod's
[views: 1588/0/0]Picadilly Circus
[views: 1578/0/0]With cops on Coventry Street
[views: 1667/0/0]Stopping at Haagendazs:-)
[views: 1720/0/0]London Eye at night
[views: 1621/0/0]Big Ben at night
[views: 1652/0/0]- Day 2
View from Andrew's appartment at Free Trade Wharf - I'm telling you, this is a place to live;-)
[views: 1618/0/0]All of us in the living room
[views: 1657/0/0]It's the official celebration of Queen's 80 birthday today!
[views: 1626/0/0]And there shoe comes (on TV, though. It was too hot, so didn't wanna go there in person, plus we've passed Buckingham yesterday)
[views: 1620/0/0]Poor guys, it's like 30 degrees and they have to wear all those traditional uniforms...
[views: 1593/0/0]Time to go to Croydon, to pay visit to Andrews parents - Imel in Andy's convertible;-)
[views: 1554/0/0]Passing through Tower bridge
[views: 1556/0/0]It's FIFA worldcup and the English take it seriously;-) (Czechs are still in too, but we're gonna lose tonight to Ghana;-)
[views: 1553/0/0]The visit is actually in Andy's father's restaurant...
[views: 1600/0/0]And their laksa has just everything a proper laksa should have! YUMMY
[views: 1549/0/0]Marketplace at Croydon
[views: 1563/0/0]Marketplace at Croydon
[views: 1561/0/0]- Day 3
First we went to St. Paul's cathedral
[views: 1602/0/0]Hiding in flowers...
[views: 1567/0/0]Crossing bridge over Thames to Tate Museum
[views: 1513/0/0]I eat rubbish;-)) It didn't seem like it could save the world, but OK
[views: 1568/0/0]Doubledecker, Tower bridge
[views: 1595/0/0]Imelda on the bridge (St Paul's in the background)
[views: 1553/0/0]Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - reconstruction of original Shakespeare's theatre that burnt down.
[views: 1587/0/0]- Inside Tate Modern
Lobster telephone
[views: 1533/0/0]Plaster guys on benches, if you stand in the corner they look like laughing at you;-)
[views: 1567/0/0]Ahem, this is also modern art (though it does look like my kindergarten era paintings)
[views: 1555/0/0]Ondra trying to understand the hidden meaning...
[views: 1565/0/0]This one was interesting: they just washed blackboard not very carefully and then used the spots left there and added chalk lines to make these pictures
[views: 1540/0/0]Lost in modernity;-)
[views: 1544/0/0]- Outside again - walking to Covent Garden
Street performer on the bank
[views: 1537/0/0]Ivo;-)))
[views: 1568/0/0]Covent Garden market
[views: 1493/0/0]Museum of Theatre
[views: 1528/0/0]Inside the Covent Garden Market
[views: 1515/0/0]Street performers
[views: 1577/0/0]Street performers
[views: 1521/0/0]Street performers
[views: 1500/0/0]Street performers
[views: 1485/0/0]In South Africa...
[views: 1507/0/0]Metro is here
[views: 1538/0/0]Dinner with extended Andy's family
[views: 1534/0/0]- Day 4
Victoria Station - checking schedule for tomorrow's train to Gatwick
[views: 1525/0/0]- Royal Mews
schoolchildren came today too
[views: 1466/0/0]One of the royal coaches
[views: 1493/0/0]This one is the most fabulous one, only for special occasions...
[views: 1456/0/0]Schoolkids
[views: 1442/0/0]It's all golden
[views: 1497/0/0]- Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurus
[views: 1461/0/0]Dinosauress;-)
[views: 1442/0/0]This must have been some strange animal
[views: 1460/0/0]T-Rex section, they don't look so scary
[views: 1478/0/0]One could say they are even cute when they break out from the egg...
[views: 1484/0/0]But they become nasty like this - so you don't wanna have one at home...
[views: 1455/0/0]They even had this moving one;-)
[views: 1441/0/0]OK, you look dangerous too... - even-hoofed animals
[views: 1497/0/0]Massive mammals;-)))
[views: 1465/0/0]Angry thorny fish
[views: 1507/0/0]- Outside again
Baker street - we are going to...
[views: 1495/0/0]The Sherlock Holmes Museum. Too late, it was laready closed:-(
[views: 1495/0/0]Trafalgar Square, National Gallery in the back
[views: 1445/0/0]Now Trafalgar Square with some sun again, that's better...
[views: 1473/0/0]The famous column with admiral Nelson is temporarily under reconstruction (I guess they were cleaning it from pigeon s... you know...) But the cover was original
[views: 1484/0/0]Ahem... Interesting... Statue at Trafalgar Sq.
[views: 1472/0/0]Walking to Leicester Square and whom is this red carpet for, is it for us?
[views: 1433/0/0]Oh, not for us, it's for Keanu Reeves...
[views: 1412/0/0]...and Sandra Bullock. They are opening the movie Lake House here...
[views: 1448/0/0]China Town
[views: 1473/0/0]Dinner with Andrew
[views: 1417/0/0]After the dinner, people always get happier;-)
[views: 1441/0/0]- Day 5
Tower of London
[views: 1431/0/0]Tower Bridge
[views: 1408/0/0]Imelda and Tower Bridge
[views: 1431/0/0]Yeoman giving tourguide of Tower
[views: 1440/0/0]Rack for torturing traitors:-)
[views: 1469/0/0]Inside the fortress
[views: 1438/0/0]White Tower in the middle of the fortress
[views: 1411/0/0]Who killed the throne successor? Cast your vote! (So far Richard the III is the main culprit:-)
[views: 1449/0/0]Queen's House
[views: 1415/0/0]Jewel House - here they store the Crown Jewels (or at least their copies:-)
[views: 1410/0/0]Imprisoned princess waiting for her rescuer. Here I come!
[views: 1455/0/0]Somewhere there should be the ravens...
[views: 1425/0/0]Chapel
[views: 1405/0/0]Man and horse armor in the exhibit in the White Tower
[views: 1439/0/0]Exhibit about the famous Gunpowder treason.
[views: 1387/0/0]Remember, remember, the fifth of November...
[views: 1463/0/0]guns and no roses
[views: 1357/0/0]gate
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