The Mall is a street that takes you from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square. It's very grand, adorned with flags, and you pass between St. James Palace on your left and St. James Park on your right, both very pretty. And finally you come to this structure, called the Admiralty Arch, and walk through it to...
... Trafalgar Square. That's where Nelson stands on his column, and also where there's terrible traffic! There are so many buses in London you wouldn't believe your eyes. They are all red, and come in various shapes and sizes: the beloved old double-deckers (tail-end to the left), the streamlined new double-deckers and the single-deckers stuffed full of electronics.
This is also a building on Trafalgar Square, called the National Gallery, home of many wondrous paintings by many famous artists.
The familiar shape of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Sir Christopher Wren, the architect, was very careful about his work. Just look at all those details.
Walking along the Strand, from St. Paul's back to Trafalgar Square, we saw this quaint little building, apparently the HQ of the well-known tea company.
We took a boat along Regent's Canal from Little Venice to Camden Town. The latter is a very colourful, hippie place with lots of stalls selling everything from clothes to magic mushrooms. This is Camden Lock.
Not the whole of Camden is so hippie-like, though: these new flats along the canal are just on the other side of the Lock and are posh and no mistake!
Piccadilly Circus. The neon adverts are still there, although two of them have been replaced with those high-tech large screens with ever-changing pictures. And did you know the Eros has nothing to do with romantic love? It's actually a rather unusual symbol for charity.
The church of St. Mary-le-Bow in the City. It is common knowledge that a true Cockney is a person born within the region where the bells of this church can be heard.
