Monday 28th September 2009

sunset at 10 past 6 from Ha'penny Bridge

Wednesday 30th September

Today we took the bus (bus pass at the ready!) to Trafalgar Square

..... and walked for miles and miles and miles!!

Sculptor Antony Gormley invited the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, different people made the plinth their own.

Suzanne H was on the plinth at 10:57 when I took this photograph - if you follow the link to her video and fast forward to 56.8 minutes you will get just a glimpse of George with Molly walking to the right to the rear of the fountain.

Peregrine Falcons keep the pigeons away from Trafalgar Square Nelsons column

St Martins in the Field

interior of St Martins

close-up of the altar window

Admiralty Arch

Horse Guards Parade with London Eye in the background

on guard on horseback (or kept in the dark and fed on sh*t, as George observed)

on guard on foot - ? distracted by someone exiting from his left

Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial

Russell Court

St James's Palace

the Courtyard at St James's Palace

one of the magnificent buildings in Waterloo Place

China Town

Regent Street taken from the upper deck of a London bus

.. on the way back to our mooring

Saturday 27th September 2009

We do the tourist thing.................

went on the underground from Paddington to the Embankment and walked over Hungerford Bridge ........

looking towards Waterloo Bridge and beyond
and over to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament
to London Eye

Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament .....

... and then we took a Thames river tour........

Waterloo Bridge and the 'Square Mile'

the Oxo Tower

Tate Modern

looking towards St Pauls from the trip boat

Millenium Bridge

Globe Theatre

Golden Hind

HMS Belfast

Tower Bridge

Tower of London

Tower Bridge over the Tower of London

City Hall

the river tour over we take another walk ......

all sorts of water traffic

crossing Tower Bridge

a very busy and intersting side street

Tower Bridge again! from Potters Fields Park

...then back onto the underground to our mooring at Paddington Basin.

Saturday 26th September

another fairly early start, the day promises to be dry and bright again

We say cheerio to Pat and Ian on Porthceri today ......

the manual bow thruster does a good job!

We may see Pat and Ian later when they come up to Paddington.

I took these pictures of Bulls Bridge along the towpath on the 24-hour mooring at Tesco's.

I'm not sure who is responsible for keeping the area tidy, this is a picture of the dry dock (unworkable) which was created by Tesco's when the store was built..... fortunately on the return journey from London we saw that the area was very much cleaner.

we're now setting off down the Paddington Arm

there are lots of sculptures along the canal made from collected rubbish these have been created by students - most are eye catching indeed!

lots of the artwork are in bridge holes

cormorants drying their feathers atop a radio mast

more art work
a long long line of residential moorings

Molly is shattered!

Virginia creeper showing off its colour in the bright sunshine

the M4 - glad we're up here!

.... and she's hot!

Wembley Stadium

still hot!

a residential sherpa?

coming up to Sainsbury's some nice boats moored here

there are quite a few inlets off the canal - here the kids were having a great time

Elvis - alive and well living on the top floor near Kensal Green!

not having been this way before - we thought this was Little Venice

more residential boats moored int the little inlets

high rise flats - not for me, thank you!

more canal art just before Ha'penny Bridge

Ha'penny Bridge, we moored here on several occasions whilst in London

the church at Westbourne Green

and so into Little Venice proper

a lovely setting

and into Paddington Basin ..... this is really exciting ... off sightseeing tomorrow!