London Tour!

On my second day in London I went on a walking tour of the city. We hit a lot of the big places like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, etc. Our tour guide, who is probably a huge fan of Eddie Izzard, was hilarious and kept going on about how he has a degree in English Literature from a prestigious university and is now doing guided tours for a living, then asked everyone in the group who else had a useless arts degree. It was a brief moment of solidarity among the few of us who sheepishly raised our hands.

Anyway, on with the pictures. It appears this blog format will only allow 5 pictures in one post, so there will be a few posts just about this trip:


These elephant pieces are everywhere in London. It's part of a campaign to raise awareness that there are very few elephants left in the world. At the end of the awareness part of the campaign they'll be sold to raise money, presumably for elephant... conservation? Protection? Anyway, it's a cool idea. No elephant is alike, and there are a LOT of them. Kind of like the mermaids in Halifax, but actually cool.


This just amused me. I didn't open it to see if people follow the rules.


A statue of Wellington, who I'm quickly learning was great soldier material but lousy politician material. He still gets a statue though. I'm lousy politician material - I want a statue!

Some great edifice, the significance of which I don't remember at the moment. I think there's a bigger one of these in France. It's late, I'll do a google search later...


Me in front of mounted officials of some description. The Changing of the Guard was happening just up the road, so they may have been part of that. Pic by Matt from San Diego.

To be continued...