Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Gerald & Ashley
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
London during the day
Some brief pics of doing touristy stuff in London during the day.
First up the London Eye, basically the worlds largest ferris wheel, 135 metres high..with perhaps the worlds longest line after the better part of 3 hours Leonie and I eventually made it on, some pretty incredible views from up there.
Next we have Trafalgar Square with the National Gallery current home of Michelangelo's "The Entombent", Rapheal's "The Madonna of the Pinks", Leonardo's "The Virgin of the Rocks"..no Donatello's however there is also Monet's "Water Lily Pond" and Van Gogh's "Sunflowers"
Across from which you have Nelson's Column, as modelled by Bex, the column was built between 1840 and 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Finally we have a somewhat famous train platform at Kings Cross Rail station, as modelled by Leonie
And yes this was a couple of months ago but I am catching up...
First up the London Eye, basically the worlds largest ferris wheel, 135 metres high..with perhaps the worlds longest line after the better part of 3 hours Leonie and I eventually made it on, some pretty incredible views from up there.
Next we have Trafalgar Square with the National Gallery current home of Michelangelo's "The Entombent", Rapheal's "The Madonna of the Pinks", Leonardo's "The Virgin of the Rocks"..no Donatello's however there is also Monet's "Water Lily Pond" and Van Gogh's "Sunflowers"
Across from which you have Nelson's Column, as modelled by Bex, the column was built between 1840 and 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Finally we have a somewhat famous train platform at Kings Cross Rail station, as modelled by Leonie
And yes this was a couple of months ago but I am catching up...
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Cambridge (In brief)
The trip to Cambridge was a little painful, we weren't feeling the best at all and found that finishing another beer on the train was just a bridge too far, in fact Cambridge itself may have been a bridge to far as even the discovery of a huge Weatherspoons Pub jam packed with university lass's couldn't even snap us out of our half incapacitated state. (For those unfamiliar with Weatherspoon's pubs they are pubs that serve the absolute cheapest beer ever though have the downside of only being frequented by very old and very drunk men)
Nuclear Power Station on the way to Cambridge
Greg getting some shut-eye in Petersborough while we wait for our train transfer
One of the many impressive buildings in Cambridge
Cambridge is a University town..and no, nothing like Palmerston North. It along with Oxford university are the two of the most famous academic institutions in the world with past students including:
Charles, Prince of Wales, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, John Cleese, Sylvia Plath, C.S. Lewis, Ian McKellen and of course New Zealands most famous (perhaps only?) nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford.
