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London
Monday 18 Oct 2010
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| Assorted views from the London Eye.
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 | A neat-looking railroad bridge.
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| If I remember correctly, this view is the very top of the London Eye.
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| Across the street from the base of Big Ben. As a foreigner, this is as close as I can get to Big Ben and Parliament.
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| St. James Park. The park that surrounds Buckingham Palace.
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 | Mute swan.
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| Pelican. The birds have no problem posing for pictures.
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 | Princess Diana was perhaps the most beloved member of the Royal Family. Supposedly, even Queen Elizabeth shares that opinion.
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 | Buckingham Palace
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 | We tried to see the Changing of the Guard.
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| Unfortunately, most of the ceremony takes place behind the gates, and we had a lousy vantage point.
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| The front gates have opened...
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 | ...a parade of soldiers enters the palace...
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 | ...and the gates close again.
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 | We didn't stay for very long. We left the palace and headed for the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
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 | The Shepherd 24-hour Gate Clock. Installed in 1852. The hour hand is a 24-hour cycle, so at noontime, the hour hand is at the bottom.
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| The Observatory is located at the top of Greenwich Hill...
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 | ...from which you can see the Millenium Dome (white with spikes).
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| This statue of two dolphins is actually a sundial. The gnomon (the part which casts the important shadow) is where the two tails touch.
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 | The face of the sundial has curved lines to reflect the movement of the sun over the course of the year.
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| The Royal Observatory marks the Prime Meridian, the 0-degree line which serves as the basis for longitude and time zones.
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 | The Prime Meridian is marked along the ground
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| We never figured out what "3943" refers to, but this clock straddles the Prime Meridian.
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 | If I remember correctly, I took this picture while staddling the Prime Meridian.
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| Then we headed back to London, to Trafalgar Square.
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| Admiral Nelson's Column. Then my batteries died.
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