Centre of London – photos from May 2010

 Approach to Hyde Park Corner 

(above and below)

Session of sorting out some photos taken in 2010:

 Westminster Cathedral through the trees

 Green Park 

Series of photos of Trafalgar Square: 

 Musicians @Trafalgar Square 

London Eye in background 

Cycling cops

London: The Eye and the Shard (JP's visit cont)

The London Eye

The Shard

This is the second post offering suggestions for the forthcoming visit to London by Jean-Pierre, a Loire vigneron. One of the suggestions in the first post was taking a bus tour round the tourist spots. Another way of getting to know London is to go on either the London Eye, near County Hall, or going up the recently opened Shard, for the moment the tallest building in London. Both are only really worth doing on a clear day.  

 

Water droplets on an Eye-pod (above and below)

 

 

The pods  

 Lift off with the sun descending behind Big Ben

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

 Charing Cross Station 

Hungerford Bridge 

 

 The City of London (financial centre) includes the Gherkin

 County Hall

 Inside the pod

The Strada Building@The Elephant & Castle

 The Shard under construction

The upper part of the Shard during construction

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The City 

Brief break from work today to go on the London Eye – for the first time for a number of years.

An 'I-pod'!

The Shard

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

Charing Cross

Train heading into Charing Cross

County Hall

Skating rink by County Hall

Stata tower @ the Elephant& Castle winner of this year's Carbuncle Cup as the ugliest building in London turbines at top of building supply 8% of building's energy requirements and have been dismissed as green toekenism

Waterloo Station

Hayward Gallery

Thames towards Vauxhall

Snapping the lion

Big Ben and Portcullis House




Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Waterloo Pier