[See Miranda's blog from Jan about St. Paul's as background and addtl interior images]
Saturday morning up bright and early to go to London!!
London!!
The plan was to go to the Tower of London first – and that opens at 930a – so we left the dorm a bit before 8am …
On the train to London …
The train goes Egham to Waterloo where we then get on the Tube to go around the city… In Waterloo station I was finally able to get coffee … mmm …. Unfortunately, because of work being done on the Tube we had to change our plans a bit.
Yet another example of my planning all for naught.
We switched it up – St. Paul’s first and then the Tower of London.
Waterloo station:
the Tube to St. Paul’s Cathedral:
Miranda loves St. Paul’s … loves it. Her favorite, I think. She’s been 3x now .. When we got out of the Tube station, she took me around the backside of the building, her favorite view, and made me keep my eyes down until we got to the right spot.
Just beautiful. Christopher Wren is a genius.
I believe the Capital building in Washington D.C. was designed after St. Paul’s and the whole time I kept thinking about how much I love D.C. …
The image above was taken at the bench that is in the top right corner of the courtyard pictured below
We went into the cathedral and explored the interior before heading up to the whispering gallery and stone gallery (that overlooks the city) … something like 300+ steps up.
St. Paul’s on wikipedia
St. Paul’s website
Images below taken from the Stone gallery …
The Tate Modern (modern art museum) and fancy schmancy bridge:
so many cranes/scaffolding everywhere, getting London ready for the 2012 Olympics.
Front of St. Pauls … with a statue of Queen Anne and a line of taxis. …
“Feed the birds, tuppence a bag … “
(sitting on the step’s of St. Paul’s)
From here, we walked to the Tower of London (pics coming soon)
love the train pics! those red seats make such a beautiful background for a portrait!
Love ALL the pics! Especially the one of you and Miranda on the bench. It looks like something out of a movie. Love the combination you wore of the green sweater and blue scarf. Great for pictures! Hmmm, when you mention the 2012 Olympics, it makes me think that we should wait until after that to go to London. Then everything would be squeeky clean, shiny and spiffed up. But we could still go to Ireland before that.
I’m glad you’re home! I missed your posts.
Oh, and I love DC as well. Another on the list that I’d like to go back to soon. Could be because it’s very European looking.
LOVE your pics Amy!!! WOW! AMAZING! ALL OF THEM!
Yes, we’re back! What a grueling trip home… up for 24 hours. But I feel great this morning! So surreal looking back on all that we experienced.
Love the pics of you and Miranda on the bench. You capture such cool images. I am sooo going to relive my trip through your fabulous posts and pics.
Keep em coming girl!
Oh and btw, I am in love with your Disney blue scarf!!! Like I seriously want one real bad!
I just linked to this post and saw that I commented about your blue Disney scarf back in April… and now I have one!
I know I’ve said it before, but I love your London posts and enjoyed looking through your pics all over again!
Thanks Amy!