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My pictorial story on London
January 24, 2008, 2:58 pm
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Day one: Stone Henge & Hampton Court Palace

Driving in the mini to stone henge and Hampton Court Palace  mmeee  Mini

Sir Henry the 8th In Hampton court Palcae grounds  It started like this…. Very sudden hail wind and rain!  look what the stupid south blowing wind and rain did! one side of me was thoroughly saturated and frozen

then something shifted in the heavens…. oooo!  much better  Turning on us to bring direct strond beams of sunlight and clear skys opened above us !

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Day Two: The Natural Histroy Museum & The Science Museum

The Natural History Museum!  A familar face  The Science Museum!  cool old technologies

The Natural History Museum!  This dude was incredible!  The Natural History Museum!

Golden eagle  Dinosaurs!  the mini disected

Cool old invented technologies  Plastics exhibition piece  Chales Babbage the first computer inventor… and heres his brain….

Day Three: London Central, River Thames, Big Ben, Parliment Square, Horse Gaurds, Trafalgar Square & National Gallery

The london eye  River thames and mee  Golden Jubilee bridge

River thames with paliment square behind me.. and Big Ben  Parliment buildings

Big Ben  Stall  Horse Guards court. Ohhh sooooo stunning.. The horse that is!  getting in there like a tourist! haha

Horse and guards doing their thing  one of the cheeky Squirrels  in of the Mall leadingdown from Buckingham

Trafalga square  Fountains at Trafalagar square and infornt of the national gallery  Trafalgar square and me

Streets  Street performer in Garden court

Day Four: The Tower of London

The Tower of London  Me and the section of the castel for the Crown Jewels behind me  The Tower of london

Me at the tower of London with Tower Bridge behind me  Engravings from the castle walls of the Tower of London  Knights room of regalia with in the Tower. Ornamentalism that projected wealth and riches of the king

some of the weaponary  Original horse and knight armour  Original Knights stick

Knight and horse in armour  )  Westminster Abby

Day Five: Westminter Abby, St Pauls Cathedral and The Green & Hyde Gardens of London

Westminster Abby cathedral  St Pauls Cathedral  St Pauls Catherdral

Green park  Green park “the lungs of London”  Hyde Park getting closer to Buckingham palace

Diana princess of Whales memorial fountain/water spring  Me and the lake in Hyde Park  Ves Bar where alot of kiwis hang out.

London underground  Streets  Well well well what have we here!!

Thames river with St Pauls in background  Millenium bridge (walking bridge)  Stpauls/millenium bridge

Day Six: Windsor Castle & Buckingham palace

Train Station Graffiti  A Windsor Antique shop  Part of Windsor Castle

Guards Marching past in Windsor  The Cathedral of Windsor Castle  looking glass in the river township below windsor Castle

)  Buckingham Palace Gates  “Gift of New Zealand”

Looking down “The mall” from Buckingham  horse guards in bragade

A guard at Buckingham  looking through the gardens in front of Buckingham

Day Seven: Home time

Bye London! Bye Kay! Bye mini!!



Once upon a day in Maastricht…
January 13, 2008, 7:30 pm
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What a beautful little city oozing with history, style, eliquence and age. We had chosen our day well for there was a huge market on in the central square when we arrived. There was such diverse amount of stalls and a huge variety of gormet food that made it  difficult to decide upon where to lunch! However we wisely chose to dine from an Italian cart. It was so simplistically sumptuous that i was almost convinced to make Italy next on my agenda. There were some beautiful churches and the architecture was stunning, it looked as though Rapunzel was going to let down her long hair out of a towering window! :P

all in all a very pleasant day indeed

River sidePieter and IStreets

Nut shopBuilding in centre of townme by the river side

One of many Devine Bakeries!Awesome!StreetsLekker!

Maastricht Market/Gala dayDelicious!fish market

Our gormet Italian lunch! Sooooo superbly delicious!Smarklic!meee

Typical Maastricht architectureFresh Breads in all shapes, sizes and flavours!street ways around churchone enterance

Central churchCentral churchCentral church

Sculptures on the enteranceimg_5004.jpgmore churches