London

Saturday 16 Oct 2010

 
Jim and Jeff
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Views of Parliament and Big Ben from the road just outside our hotel
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We walked by Westminster Abbey, but it was a religious holiday and we couldn't get in.
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A monument to Abraham Lincoln
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Telephone booths are mostly a thing of the past.
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Michelle thought this building was neat. I don't remember why.
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Our first stop was the Churchill War Museum.
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The metal door encased in stone.
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This was the non-descript basement from which Churchill managed the war effort.
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An enigma machine.
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At the top it had four dials; then a set of lights, one of which would light up when you pressed one of the keys.
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Beneath the keys were a patch panel, where wires would add to the encryption scheme.
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This was the sort of room where Churchill's top advisors lived and worked.
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That's odd. I could have sworn there were a couple dozen more pictures of the Churchill museum.
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The London Eye. 440-foot ferris wheel on the banks of the River Thames. The low building just to the right is our hotel.
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Views of the Thames from the Waterloo Bridge, just outside our hotel.
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Flag flying over Parliament.
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The front of our hotel. This building was the seat of London city government until 1986.
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The London Eye at night
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