I had many opportunities to visit London, which was only 45 minutes away by train. It reminded me a lot of my native New York City (with its bustle, night life, and amazing diversity), but with more neoclassical flair. These photos represent a very small sampling of the many cultural, historic and artistic thrills I experienced there.
Many thanks to Mike D'Angelo for most of the pictures on this page.
This is Battersea Power Station as seen on the train from Rochester to Victoria Station. You may recognize it from the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album
The famed Tower Bridge was one of the first sights I saw upon emerging from London Bridge railroad station
The Houses of Parliament building are best known for this clock tower, commonly and wrongly referred to as "Big Ben" (technically, Big Ben is the bell within this clock tower)
The British museum houses the world's largest Egyptian collection, as well as antiquities (many massive!) from every other historic civilization throughout the world
There are an incredible mummies here (human and animal, including cats!)
There are also a large number of Greek, Roman. Assyrian, Mesopotamian, and other statues, mostly without heads; the presence of these particular statues (sometimes known as the "Elgin Marbles"), which were relocated from the Parthenon in Greece, is somewhat controversial due to Greece's longstanding demands for their return
I once visited a museum...it had the heads from the statues at all the other museums -Steve Wright
From the museum's extensive monetary collection: A 500 billion Yugoslavian dinara
The Rosetta Stone, perhaps the museum's most famous artifact
Another famous item - this one from Westminster Abbey, is King Edward's Chair, on which every one of England's monarchs was coronated starting in 1308
Buckingham Palace, home to Britain's monarchs since the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837
Trafalgar Square, dedicated to Admiral Horatio Nelson's defeat over the Spanish Armada near Spain's Cape of Trafalgar in 1805; Nelson's likeness adorns the massive column there
The Royal Exchange, one of many grand neoclassical buildings in the city; the stairs here constitute one of two official places from which the coronation of a new monarch is announced
St. Paul's Cathedral is an opulent wonder; some 500 steps lead to the topmost balcony, which affords an amazing bird's-eye view of the city
last updated 17 February 2008