Results tagged “Buildings” from UK and Japan 2010
Sheldonian Theatre
Bridge of Sighs
Divinity School
Convocation House, next to the Divinity School
The Tower of the Five Orders
Silence Please!
Radcliffe Camera from the University Church
Looking into All Souls College
Looking into Brasenose College
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin
The Saxon tower of St Michael at the North Gate
Entrance to Jesus College
Jesus College dining hall
Jesus College quadrangle
Jesus College chapel
Jesus College chapel
Exeter College quadrangle
Exeter College chapel
Exeter College chapel
I love the detail on the organ of Exeter College chapel
Exeter College chapel
Exeter College quadrangle
South side of the Divinity School
Radcliffe Camera
Lincoln College quadrangle
Lincoln College dining hall
New College quadrangle
New College grounds including the old Oxford city wall
New College chapel
Beautiful stained glass in New College chapel
Crook of the crozier of William of Wykeham
New College chapel
Cloister of New College featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
New College quadrangle
New College quadrangle
New College quadrangle featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Draco gets turned into a ferret under this tree
After talking to Cedric, Harry walks through this gate
Christ Church college
Christ Church Cathedral
Christ Church quadrangle
There's a shot of Ron and Hermione at the top of these steps at the end of Chamber of Secrets
Entrance to Hogwarts!
Steps used in the first two Harry Potter movies
Steps used in the first two Harry Potter movies
McGonnagal stood at the top of these stairs to welcome the first years
The kids all walk up here
The real entrance to the Great Hall
Christ Church dining room
Christ Church dining room
Christ Church ceiling - does it look anything like Hogwarts?
Christ Church dining room
The fireplace with the "long necks" that inspired Lewis Carroll
Christ Church Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral
Another Christ Church quadrangle
Bicycle parking at Oxford Station
UK trains with built-in GPS and airline style entertainment system (that you had to pay for)
Geotagging - Day 31
Geotagging - Day 31
Security cameras at Charing Cross station
Rows of houses outside Waterloo station
Marathon runners on Woolwich Road, Charlton
Thames Flood Barrier
Thames Flood Barrier
Thames Flood Barrier
Model of the flood control system
Stu ponders the denting caused by stress-testing the scale model
Scale model of the flood control system used for testing the design
Thames Flood Barrier
Thames Flood Barrier
Thames Flood Barrier
Thames Flood Barrier
Thames Path National Trail tunnel
This wall showed the length and height of the Thames as it comes down from its headwaters
Thames heights near Runnymede
Looking towards London and the North Greenwich Arena
Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Elmo girl!
Buzz Lightyear was also running
Sundial in Greenwich Park
Greenwich Observatory
National Maritime Museum
North Greenwich Arena
Greenwich Observatory
Shepherd 24-hour Gate Clock and Public Standards of Length
Greenwich Observatory
Greenwich Observatory
Stu on the Prime Meridian
Prime Meridian
Greenwich Observatory
Prime Meridian on Park Vista just north of the gardens
Prime Meridian on Park Vista just north of the gardens
Prime Meridian on Park Vista just north of the gardens
Geotagging - Day 30
Fairly standard night and breakfast. Still think it's probably the best hotel we've had so far this trip.
I went for a walk down to the beach while Stu was getting ready. Not a terribly nice beach, and separated every twenty metres or so with walls to stop erosion. Walked west to get a better look at the circus tent looking thing. Didn't find out what it was until I looked it up just then - it's a Butlins Holiday Park.
Beach at Bognor Regis
Bathing Boxes at Bognor Regis
Bathing Boxes at Bognor Regis
Grand Hotel, Brighton
Brighton Pier
West Pier at Brighton, finally destroyed by fire in 2003
Brighton Pier
Brighton Pier
Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Brighton Clock Tower
Seven Sisters at Beachy Head
Seven Sisters at Beachy Head
Getting stuck behind flocks of sheep is a minor hazard travelling in England
Long Man of Wilmington
Drove drove drove. Stopped at a Scottish Restaurant for lunch.
Saw France on the way into Dover :)
And finally made it to Dover Castle just after 4pm. The place closes at 6pm. And it was raining. Have I mentioned how much it rains here? Decided to go in anyway. £13.90 each. We definitely should have gotten English Heritage membership :/ They asked us if we wanted to go on the 5pm secret war tunnels tour and we said yes. But that was way at the bottom of the castle, and the tower etc were way up the top. Which meant we had a grand total of half an hour to explore the castle :(:(:( Which was a shame because it was a very cool castle to explore. Rather than directing you in one way and out another, you can go in and just explore little nooks and crannies and rooms and stairways and corridors. It was a lot of fun, but we just didn't have the time to do it justice :( In fact I actually managed to lose the sweetie which was quite stressful because we had to get down to the tunnels.
Dover Castle
Dover Castle
Entrance gate at Dover Castle
Dover Castle
Dover Castle
Interior of Dover Castle
Interior of Dover Castle
Corridor in Dover Castle
View of Dover from the top of the castle
Top of Dover Castle
Top of Dover Castle
English Channel from Dover Castle
Dover Castle
Dover from Dover Castle
St Mary in the Castle church
Dover Castle
Interior of Dover Castle
Dover Castle
Entrance to the tunnels
So left when the tour was done and headed for the hotel.
Stopped at the Battle of Britain Memorial. It was raining. A lot. And windy. Which was bad for my camera but in one way it was good because there was noone else there. Had the place to myself. Managed a couple of photos, with and without rain on the lens.
Battle of Britain Memorial
Battle of Britain Memorial
Battle of Britain Memorial
Supermarine Spitfire Mark I replica at the Battle of Britain Memorial
Battle of Britain Memorial sign
Got to the hotel. Internet access is a pain cause you really need a wifi username and password for each device. And the fire alarm has gone off for ten seconds tonight. Yay. But the nicest thing about this hotel is its location, with an outlook to the English Channel. Can see France! :) The moon over the water was amazing before.
Went out to get a pizza for dinner. At the local Pizza Hut. Most expensive pizza I've ever eaten. £11.99 - which is $25AUD for a standard size pizza!! Gah!!!! Just a plain old pepperoni pizza. Insane, totally insane :( Still, it was actually quite nice.
Hoping for five minutes of sunlight tomorrow morning to see the cliffs, that's all I'm asking. It can rain the rest of the day, but some sun on the cliffs would be nice... kthxbai!
Street in Bath
Lindt Gold Lion? :)
Scrabble Lion
Starry Night Lion
Entrance to the baths
Roman Bath
Bath Abbey
Statue
Roman Bath
This is where the hot water spring surfaces
Roman Bath
Roman Bath buildings
Roman Bath
Lead pipes
For some reason they drained out where the spring surfaces
Pump House
Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey
Organ in Bath Abbey
Ceiling of Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey
The Circus
The Circus. Who will buy this beautiful morning?
Royal Crescent
Glastonbury Tor from the A39 north of Wells
Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral
Ceiling of Wells Cathedral
Scissor reinforcing in Wells Cathedral
Scissor reinforcing in Wells Cathedral
Altar of Wells Cathedral
Organ of Wells Cathedral
Quire of Wells Cathedral
Stairs to the Chapter House
Chapter House. Stunningly beautiful, but I needed a wider lens!
Chapter House
Wells Cathedral
Welcome to Cornwall! Stu was pretty excited to see this
Cornwall
Sunset at Newquay
Geotagging - Day 25
So there was a tube strike planned for today. While there were some services still running, we decided we'd have a day of "local" to the hotel things. ie, things we could walk to from the hotel.
So we headed in the general direction of what we thought was the Natural History Museum, but the road curled around to the north instead of staying going north east, so we decided to have a look at Kensington Palace first up. Just the exterior, didn't go in. Went down to the pond where The Birds were gathered. Got some way cool photos of some starlings on a dude's hand.
Doggy poop bins in Kensington Gardens
Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace gardens
Geese in Kensington Gardens
Swan in Kensington Gardens
Starlings in Kensington Gardens
Starlings in Kensington Gardens
Starlings in Kensington Gardens
Swan in Kensington Gardens
Feeding the geese
Kensington Palace gates
Then we meandered through Kensington Gardens, and had a look at the Albert Memorial, and the Royal Albert Hall.
South Flower Walk
Albert Memorial
Royal Albert Hall
Albert Memorial
And then down to the Natural History Museum. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Maybe it was trying to cover too much. I was expecting it to be choc-full of stuff, but it was a little bit spartan, representing whole swathes of things (eg all of mammals or all of fish) with just a few cabinets. Actually one of the best displays in terms of sheer volume was the mineral displays. It took up a whole big room! Stu also liked the contents of the cocoon (some detail on the scientific and museum process), but by that time we were exhausted on our feet and didn't really have the energy to look at it on more depth.
Natural History Museum
Amazing stone carvings were all over the building - inside and out!
Central Hall
Moose I think
Whales
Whale
Sensory and Motor models of the body
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Charles Darwin
Central Hall
Giant Sequoia cross section
Giant Sequoia cross section
Mineral hall
Iridescent Stalactites
Mocha Stone
Fluorescent diamonds
Agate
This looks like a cityscape or something
Side of the cacoon
Genes V! I had this book in uni!
Petrified wood
So at this point Stu headed back to the hotel and I decided to go to Harrods (just to say I'd been). Oh. Fricken. Dear. First of all you need a map to find your way around (and even then you still got turned around and upside down). I was constantly trying to figure out how to get out of where I was. The whole bottom floor of course is the super exclusive perfumes and handbags. With an Egyptian theme (!). Went up to the fourth floor to look at toys. Had to walk through the childrenswear section. £300 for an outfit?? hrmm. They did have RC which I'd not seen in stores (only online) for £79. Lego was comparable to our pricing (perhaps more with the dollar the way it is). Went downstairs to have a look at electronics stuff, but if they had memory sticks I didn't find them. TinTin books were £7. The coolest part of the whole store (that I saw) was the fossil and mineral gallery. Having literally just seen some of this stuff at the museum, to see it for sale was super cool. Horrendously expensive, but super cool :) I didn't find the statue my parents found last year, or the Dodi and Diana one (I didn't even know it existed til just then), but did find a gold Egyptian thing. At this point I figured any exit was a good exit, so bolted for the door before I got lost again!
Harrods
Rhodocrosite
Petrified wood
Shells
Gold Egyptian thing
Harrods
Twenty five minute walk back to the hotel, then went out again to get dinner (KFC - I know, lame) and back to *sit*. Another ten kilometre walking day today, not including walking around the museum or Harrods or the walk to KFC and back. Feet. Very. Sore.
Geotagging - Day 11
Breakfast the same as last two days. Out the door a bit after 9am.
Checked out a local laundromat on the way to the station which should work for us later in the week.
Bicycles for hire in Earl's Court. They had these all over the place. We might have
used them except the process seemed overly complicated so thought it was all too hard.
So headed into town.
Our first stop (after passing Piccadilly, Mayfair and Vine St) was the Apple Store on Regent St. Unfortunately they don't do iPhone unlocking. So I am royally screwed :( $20000/gb because Optus and/or Apple couldn't get their act together. Bastards. Epic hate. So switched off data and will only use data in emergencies.
Toilet at Mayfair. Yes even the toilets are fancy in this part of town!
Ritz Hotel
Burlington House
Old building on Great Marlborough St
Apple Store on Regent St
Continued up Regent St and along Oxford St, past Park Lane to Hyde Park. Had a bit of a meander through the park and took lots of photos of gooses and stuff.
Clock on Selfridges
Marble Arch, Hyde Park
Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park
Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park
Hyde Park deckchairs
Hyde Park deckchairs can be hired - £1.50 an hour!
Reformer's Tree mosaic
Geese on the march!
Heron
Flowers
Monkey Puzzle Tree
Flowers
Gum tree outside a toilet block
Queen Elizabeth Gate, aka The Queen Mother Gates
Grand Entrance gates
Wellington Arch
Then hopped on a train to Temple.
Got out and wandered up to the Temple Church, but unfortunately it was closed for maintenance. Was very cool walking amongst the buildings around the church - little passageways between and through the buildings - very cool!
Entrance to Pump Court
Cloisters
Temple Church
Temple Church
Column dedicated to the Knights Templar
Column dedicated to the Knights Templar
Walking up Inner Temple Lane
Came out onto Fleet St and saw the Royal Courts of Justice, which I'd never seen before. It was a pretty spectacular building too. Walked down and back past that.
My attempt to get a red double decker bus, a black taxi, a pillar box and a
phone box all in one shot. Sorta worked.
Royal Courts of Justice
Royal Courts of Justice
Continued up Fleet St. Stopped for lunch and a pint at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, which is a funky little pub rebuilt 1667 (after the great fire of London). It had a whole series of little rooms and bars, which would make it a bit of a fun place to explore. We found a room with a free table and I had bangers and mash (which had to be done being in England and all :) ). Also had a couple of Samuel Smith beers - I had an alpine lager and Stu had a brewers bitter.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Continued on. Had a quick detour up past the Old Bailey (which has been restored nicely after being blown up in V for Vendetta ;) ) and continued on to St Paul's Cathedral. It was raining at this point which made photography somewhat tricky. Went into the entrance of the cathedral. It's £12.50 to go in but of course there is no photography permitted. Stu has been in this one before, so if we're going to shell out that much money with no photos to show for it, we might do Westminster Abbey.
The Old Bailey
The Old Bailey
St Paul's Cathedral
Queen Anne statue outside St Paul's
St Paul's Cathedral
Then we walked across the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern, to see an exhibition - "Exposed - Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera". Some of it was pretty interesting. Some of it was a bit meh. My favourite thing was a serious of webcam grabs of Linz in Austria. A dude had gone down the plaza in front of the webcam at the same time each day and taken a grab of the webcam at the time. There were a series of short comments as well. For some reason I really liked this display :) By the time we'd finished looking at this it was nearly 6pm, so we walked back across the bridge, up to Mansion House station and back to the hotel (via Burger King for a snack dinner).
Heading down to the Millennium Bridge
Seagull on the Millennium Bridge
Looking down the Thames
Crossing the Millennium Bridge
Jurgita & Peter Forever. Says so on the label.
St Paul's from the Millennium Bridge
South end of the Millennium Bridge
St Paul's and the Millennium Bridge
Interior of Tate Modern
Millennium Bridge
Looking up the brick tower of Tate Modern
Geotagging - Day 10
Photos on the Canon: 297
Around 8 we went down for breakfast. It was actually pretty good with a decent selection of cooked and other food.
The Tardis!! At Earl's Court
Then we headed out for the day. I thought that it might be good to do a bit of a walk around the place to get a feel for the place, and we could plan the rest of the days at night. So started by getting off at St James Park (Victoria station was closed due to a security alert). This was around 9:30-10am.
So the day turned out to be a nine-hour long walk with pitstops :) We didn't go into anything, this was just a walk by with photos.
Started with New Scotland Yard, then Westminster Abbey (huge), Houses of Parliament (I was squeeing lots at being in London at this point), across the Lambeth Bridge, then meandered slowly north then east along the southbank walkway seeing lots of bridges and buildings and stuff. Ended up crossing Tower Bridge around 4pm. Was a super awesome day of seeing stuff and finally getting to see stuff I'd only ever seen in pictures/tv/movies.
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey
Clock face of Big Ben
Back of Westminster Abbey
I think this lion on the Houses of Parliament is poking its tongue out at me!
Houses of Parliament
Buxton Memorial
Lambeth Bridge
Looking down the Thames
Bus on the Lambeth Bridge. This is where the Knight Bus passed between two regular buses in Prisoner of Azkaban
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
Houses of Parliament
Photo by Stu
South Bank of the Thames
Houses of Parliament
Me in London!!
The Southbank Lion, and the London Eye
Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament
London Eye
Queues for the London Eye
Hungerford Bridge
Blue Morris Dancers
Underground Skate Park
St Paul's
London CBD across the Thames
St Paul's
Millennium Bridge and St Paul's
Tate Modern
Shakespeare's Globe (it's only a model! shh!)
Southwark Bridge
Borough Markets
Location of the Leaky Cauldron in Prisoner of Azkaban. It's now a florist.
Winchester Palace - the remains of
The Golden Hinde
The Golden Hinde
London Bridge (boring!)
HMS Belfast
City Hall
Tower of London
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge
HMS Belfast
Tower of London
Decided to get some food at this point, so stopped at a fancy(ish) Italian place at St Katherine Dock.
Didn't think we had much energy left so decided to see Fenchurch St station and then Liverpool St station. Found those so decided to head for home. But home had the option of going via Kings Cross so that's what we did. First I found Euston Road but went the wrong direction to find Pentonville Road so had to go back, after photographing the outside of St Pancras station (trees have grown a bit since Chamber of Secrets was filmed). Then of course was the mission to find platform 9 3/4. They're making a real mess of the station at the moment, and sadly the little bridge where Hagrid gives Harry his ticket has been pulled down (at the end of 2008). I didn't even try to find the waiting room from Order of the Phoenix. But back to 9 3/4. Well it seems they filmed this between platforms 6 and 7. Or maybe it was between 2 and 3. Not quite sure now, will need to go back to check. Anyways. The trolley they have set into the wall is actually just past the bike racks 2/3 the way along platform 8.
Old London red bus
St Pancras Station - recognise this from Chamber of Secrets?
King's Cross station
All that's left of the bridge across the platforms where Hagrid gave Harry his ticket for the Hogwarts Express
Platform 9 3/4!! This has been moved as of 2012 apparently
The brickwork between platforms 4 and 5 where they filmed the entrance to Platform 9 3/4
Finally got out of there, and went via the supermarket to get a snack so we won't need dinner.
Geotagging - Day 8