Boat Trip and St. Pauls
Boat Trip and St. Pauls
Saturday 11th October 2008
Took the "Tate to Tate" boat service and then went for a look around St. Paul's.
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| 12:18:05 Whilst waiting for the boat on the pier at the Tate Britain. | 12:25:26 Chie is rather fascinated by these amphibious "duck buses" or whatever they're called. | 12:38:25 On the boat now, just after setting off. Here's a petrol station! |
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| 12:38:33 Along the side of the boat, there's the London eye. | 12:38:54 The Houses of Parliament, as seen from the river. Rather magnificent isn't it? | 12:38:58 ...the other end of it. |
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| 12:39:03 Many more of the same now - I was very snap happy! | 12:39:07 | 12:39:13 |
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| 12:39:37 | 12:39:45 Chie asked me to take this as she likes the underside of bridges. Strange girl. | 12:39:53 The other side of Westminster bridge now. |
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| 12:39:59 | 12:40:06 I rather like this one. | 12:40:51 Actually I rather like all of these Parliament shots. |
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| 12:44:27 Me at the back of the boat, in shadow a bit unfortunately. | 12:44:34 ...and again, underside of a bridge as well. | 12:45:31 |
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| 12:49:16 Here we are now, almost at out destination, so a few shots of St. Paul's. | 12:49:46 ...and the Millenium Bridge. | 12:49:53 |
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| 12:54:04 There's Bankside power station, where my Grandfather once worked, which is apparently some art gallery or something nowadays. | 12:56:27 | 12:58:54 Chie walking over the Millenium Bridge. |
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| 13:01:33 Through to St. Paul's. | 13:05:11 This corner pub rather appealed to me. | 13:05:17 Is that the Holy Grail in that box? |
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| 13:05:30 10/10 for the name of this street. | 13:07:11 ...and that would be St. Paul's. | 13:25:53 The view from the stone gallery... |
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| 13:25:57 ...and another (not that inspiring in this direction). | 13:29:38 ...and further up the view from the golden gallery, right at the top. | 13:29:44 ...more of the same. |
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| 13:33:14 | 13:33:21 Chie admiring the view. | 13:34:08 A sign with a real career behind it. |
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| 13:34:20 I assume this must be a fire hydrant? | 13:35:43 | 13:36:23 |
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| 13:36:31 | 15:50:31 Later on that afternoon, on the way home we stopped off at Somerset House for a coffee on their rather nice riverside terrace (although you can't really see the river here). | 15:50:39 |
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| 15:51:16 | 15:59:16 Chie was enjoying shining her watch in my face here - can you see the little circle of light on my forehead? | 17:21:15 On the bus on the way back after stopping off in Chinatown to buy some interesting vegetarian ingredients - including this apparently nazi endorsed vegetarian foodstuff. |
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| 20:25:49 Back at home - sake! |
