Gated mews in St. James's

We saw the Horse Guards on their way to the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.

Pond in St. James's Park

Crescent of Georgian Houses in Belgravia, just north of Belgrave Square

Statue of Samuel Johnson across from the Law Courts

Law Courts

Doorway of Twinings Tea Company

Statue of Hodge, "A very fine cat indeed", with his trademark oyster in front of Samuel Johnson's house

View of London Bridge and Tower Bridge looking east down the Thames from the Millenium (pedestrian) bridge.

Pedestrian swing bridge in front of converted warehouses on refurbished South Bank of the the Thames.

Tower of London seen from Tower Bridge

View of the Thames from Tower Bridge

Inside the south tower, statues of workmen 'building' Tower Bridge.

View of the Thames from Tower Bridge.

View of the Gherkin with the Tower of London in the foreground. JT and I decided this was probably the HQ of a supervillain.

JT stands beside a giant tool rack holding wrenches that were used in the maintenance of the workings of Tower Bridge.

The original engines that raised and lowered Tower Bridge.

Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at Portsmouth, England.

Bow of HMS Victory.

England's first ironclad, HMS Warrior, at Portsmouth, England.

Deck of the Warrior

Deck of the Warrior

Warrior was still equipped with swords everywhere, in case of boarding actions.

Unlike the Victory, Warrior's ammo was contained in shells. They also had pistols to repel borders. Note the ample headroom.

Sailors still ate on mess tables between the guns on the gun deck.

The stove in the Warrior was larger than Victory's and obviously manufactured.

But where would sailors be without grog?

There were two rows of enormous coal-fired boilers to drive the engines.

A gauge sends orders from the helm to the engine room.

Enormous gears transfer power to the propellor.

View of Portmouth Harbor; Portsmouth, England.

Windsor Castle

Thames path between Windsor and Maidenhead.

Lock on the Thames Path

Posh houses on the Thames

Last 16th Century building in London.

Stage of the restored Globe Theater

Audience galleries in the Globe

Tank at the Imperial War Museum

Atomic bomb casing

A pleasant street in Kensington.