Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

June 7, 2014

More pics from London

So to the second day in London. By now we had done the touristy parts and it was time to explore the calmer and "luxurious" neighbourhoods. It felt like it anyway because of the gorgeous houses, the fancy shops and the posh sports cars cruising around. Rather close to all of this are the two huge and gorgeously green oases; Hyde Park and Regent Park which should not be forgotten when visiting London.
The area that felt that extra posh was Belgravia, where famous Harrods is and all the nice museums.  We actually never went into the Harrods, it was anyway just another expensive shop ;)
We did though visited both the 'Victoria and Albert' and the 'Natural History' museum that are well worth the walk, even if its just to stand outside and look at the grand façade. 
Going back I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the train station St Pancras which is 'just another' amazing building :))

Today the heavy clouds are covering Sheffield and the rain is flooding the streets, which just means, out and test how waterproof the cloths are :))

Until next time, enjoy!
                                                                      
Buckingham Palace

St Margaret's Church


Belgravia

Belgravia


Harrods

Natural history museum

Natural history museum

Natural history museum

Natural history museum, Stone and mineral collection

 Hyde Park


I liked the tiling on this Underground ststion

St Pancras

Inside St Pancras

                                                                 

June 5, 2014

London weekend

Not long after coming back from the Northern Ireland, it was time to visit London. As I have never been to a really big city like that, I was actually looking forward to it.
Got there Saturday around lunch time and the plan was just to walk around and see as many touristic attractions as possible, which most are located along the Thames.
Of course I was impressed by the architecture of the bridges, churches and everything else. That day we probably walked well above 20km, which meant that the feet were a bit sore that evening :)
I was planning to do lots of evening pictures, but since we already had walked a lot the only places that I got to were the Palace of Westminster, London Eye and Big Ben.
The second day we moved away from the tourist attractions but lets talk about that in the next blog :)

St Paul's cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

Millennium bridge

Hms Belfast

Hms Belfast

Tower Bridge

Tower bridge

Tower of London on the right

Skyscraper

Leadenhall market

Toilets

London eye

Palace of Westminster and Big Ben

Piccadilly circus

London eye in evening sun

Night time

Big Ben

Big Ben