My trip to Europe-part 1-London

smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
edited January 28, 2007 in Journeys
Got back a few weeks ago. I am still recovering from exhaustion and sore feet. The ground in Europe just somehow seems harder to me.

Started out in London... Day 1

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We were only there for 24 hours and it was my friends' first trip to Europe so I had to show her as many sights as I could in a day...

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Big Ben and the photo opportunity...

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View from and Self portrait on the top of St Paul's Cathedral, very cold and windy up there.

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Lunch at the Grenadier Pub (harder to find than you could ever imagine). Famous for being old and Haunted.

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Guard at Buckingham Palace

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My friend didn't Mind the Gap and she lost her shoe. I never laughed so hard in my life; Notting Hill tube station

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This man had the squirrel on his lap but I just missed it!

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Big Ben and Parliment at night

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Michelle and I, Self Portrait in Piccadilly Circus

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Famouse Harrods department store at night

For more London photos visit http://www.shawnaseto.com/gallery/681042/1/36231835

Please feel free to add your London photos in this thread. I would love to see them!
Shawna
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited October 26, 2006
    Mind the gap
    OMG, I remember that!

    So what did your friend do when she lost her shoe? Did she hop around London with only one shoe? :-)
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited October 26, 2006
    Dee wrote:
    OMG, I remember that!

    So what did your friend do when she lost her shoe? Did she hop around London with only one shoe? :-)

    We thought that what was going to happen but when I stopped laughing and making a scene, I asked someone who worked there and he got a hook thingy and fished it out for her!
    Shawna
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited October 26, 2006
    Omg
    We thought that what was going to happen but when I stopped laughing and making a scene, I asked someone who worked there and he got a hook thingy and fished it out for her!


    Well rolleyes1.gif I guess they are used to retrieving things that fall in the gap!rolleyes1.gif
  • nwilkinsnwilkins Registered Users Posts: 117 Major grins
    edited October 27, 2006
    Wonderful shots, Shawna.

    I just got back myself from Liverpool and London. I particularly liked the Look Right/Look Left notations painted on the streets for us Yanks no doubt!
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  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited October 27, 2006
    nwilkins wrote:
    Wonderful shots, Shawna.

    I just got back myself from Liverpool and London. I particularly liked the Look Right/Look Left notations painted on the streets for us Yanks no doubt!

    Yes I am fond of that too... check out my gallery, I have a photo of it that I quite like. It gets so confusing which way to look... guess that is why they told us as kids to always look both ways!

    http://www.shawnaseto.com/gallery/681042/1/36231835
    Shawna
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  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    New photos added
    Slowly but surely I have been editing and adding photos... Enjoy!
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  • AntoineDAntoineD Registered Users Posts: 393 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2006
    wow ! the black & white photo with the cab is just like in spin city ! :D

    nice thumb.gif

    Seeing your journey's pictures make me want to take the next flight !
    have a quick look at my portfolio (there's a photolog, too) :: (11-07-2006) experiencing a new flash portfolio. What do you think?
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2007
    AntoineD wrote:
    wow ! the black & white photo with the cab is just like in spin city ! :D

    nice thumb.gif
    You mean Sin City right? Cool... I never saw the full movie but I knew what you meant right away. Good eye!
    Shawna
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  • ppugappuga Registered Users Posts: 100 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2007
    Great pictures! The BW of Harrods and the London Cab is awsome!

    Did you get some pictures from/of the London Eye?

    let's take a look to your galleries
  • AntoineDAntoineD Registered Users Posts: 393 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2007
    You mean Sin City right? Cool... I never saw the full movie but I knew what you meant right away. Good eye!

    Absolutely, indeed, Spin City has nothing to do with Sin City :D
    have a quick look at my portfolio (there's a photolog, too) :: (11-07-2006) experiencing a new flash portfolio. What do you think?
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited January 19, 2007
    ppuga wrote:
    Great pictures! The BW of Harrods and the London Cab is awsome!

    Did you get some pictures from/of the London Eye?

    let's take a look to your galleries

    thanks...
    it was pouring rain (go figure) when we were on the eye so my pictures kinda sucked
    Shawna
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  • ppugappuga Registered Users Posts: 100 Major grins
    edited January 19, 2007
    thanks...
    it was pouring rain (go figure) when we were on the eye so my pictures kinda sucked

    oh that's a shame, but I saw your galleries and you have great work. clap.gif

    I get a few from the London Eye by night a few months ago:

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    Wasn't raining, but couldn't get up in the day, sure it's a completly different view.
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited January 19, 2007
    ppuga wrote:
    oh that's a shame, but I saw your galleries and you have great work. clap.gif

    I get a few from the London Eye by night a few months ago:

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    112455666-M.jpg

    112456097-M.jpg


    Wasn't raining, but couldn't get up in the day, sure it's a completly different view.

    thanks! those are really great shots you took. we were there at sunset, would have been perfect but oh well. maybe next time.
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  • ppugappuga Registered Users Posts: 100 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2007
    thanks! those are really great shots you took. we were there at sunset, would have been perfect but oh well. maybe next time.

    Always there's another chance. thumb.gif
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2007
    Great trip ! thanks for sharing these lovely photos iloveyou.gif
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  • christulkchristulk Registered Users Posts: 453 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2007
    nwilkins wrote:
    Wonderful shots, Shawna.

    I just got back myself from Liverpool and London. I particularly liked the Look Right/Look Left notations painted on the streets for us Yanks no doubt!

    Lovely shots - particularly the night stuff.

    When traveling to the US we Aussies (Right hand drive like the poms) have a saying to keep us out of trouble when crossing the road. "Death from the left" i.e, look left FIRST!! (it's worked for me so far)
    :D
    C&C always welcomed.

    Cheers

    Chris

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  • fire1035fire1035 Registered Users Posts: 208 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2007
    Awesome pictures.


    When my grandparents took me in 1994 I caught onto a saying my grandfather used everytime we got into the car and pulled onto a roadway. I liked it so much I used it as a friendly reminder when my wife and I went in 2004. Everytime we pulled out of a parking lot, petrol depot, etc. we would simply state "and we're driving left." It seemed to keep us out of trouble.
  • PaulBachPaulBach Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited January 28, 2007
    The best things are free
    Spent a fair amout of time in London with the US Navy - used to give TubeTours to new arrivals.

    Don't ever buy the rubbish that London has to be expensive since many of the best sites are free.

    -The Horse Guards Parade
    -The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
    -The British Museum
    -People watching on Oxford Street and at Trafalgar.

    One of the best kept secrets are

    1. good beer and food at very reasonable at Witherspoon Pubs
    2. Breakfast and lunch in the basement of St. Martins in the Field.

    Take a few moments to speak to the senior citizens. They all have great stories of the blitz and WWII. The stories get better every time they are told. thumb.gif
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