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These cherubs were hidden behind new construction in the financial district.
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Knightsbridge, High Street and Oxford Street all have impressive architecture.
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This little flower stand was a short walk from our hotel.
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These stately homes are just a short distance from High Street in Knightsbridge.
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This is Harrod's flagship store in Knightsbridge. We mistakenly ventured in on the first day of their annual sale! It was so crowded that you could hardly even breathe!
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This is the coffee and tea salon at Harrod's, just one of many such rooms.
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In another salon, every confection from cheap mints to the finest chocolates are on display.
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Even the lowest vegetable as well as the glistening fruit have their own salon at Harrod's.
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This was a difficult photo composite of Harrod's Egyptian escalators which connect four floors.
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This is not a movie palace but the top level of the Egyptian escalator at Harrod's!
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Oxford Street at dusk.
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Row houses near Kensington-High Street.
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Art nouveau decorations on a very large house.
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A fabulous example of Art Nouveau decorating a department store on Oxford Street
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Graciela shines through the drizzle at the famous old Camden Locks.
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The area of Camden appears dominated by schlock, counter-culture stores and quasi artsy-fartsy shops.
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At the end of Camden Passage is this delightful pub.
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Here I am outside London's new City Hall which looks as if Humpty Dumpty lost a battle with an egg slicer!!! But what an exciting building inside!
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Interior of London's city hall; this is part of the meeting chamber.
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The spiraling ramp of the city hall is reminesiant of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
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Covent Garden appears to be several hundred years old and very similar to market places around the world.
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Graciela is framed by the famous Tower Bridge.
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A gargoyle on Westminster Cathedral.
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A gargoyle on Westminster Cathedral.
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A gargoyle on Westminster Cathedral.
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Houseboats tied up on the Regent's Canal between Camden and Paddington.
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The water bus passed right past this restaurant and houseboats near Paddington.
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The Victorian-era fountains and terrace in Hyde Park are delightful and not overblown.
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What a quaint entrance for a little neighborhood.
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Leicester Square is alive in the evening with loads of theaters, flesh palaces and restaurants. Here you can find half price theater tickets.
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The crowds at Leicester Square were good natured and children loved the merry-go-round.
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One of the beautiful new subway stations on the new Mellenium Line, London.
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One of the many new complexes going up in revitalized areas of London.
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The OXO complex houses art stores, shops and offices.
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A Victorian-era firehouse in south-east London.
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The London Eye, the world's largest Ferris wheel, is a good quarter to half mile away from the Parliament Bridge where this was taken.
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American style helium balloons at the start of the New Year's Day parade at the Parliament building.
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Pearlies, who cover their clothes in designs of mother-of-pearl buttons, in the New Year's Day parade.
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Marchers from Japan in the New Year's Day parade.
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East Indian bag and pipe corps.
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Many older cars were shown off in the New Year's Day parade.
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Laurel and Hardy lost ? in London yet!
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Here is the Millenium (foot) Bridge stretching from the Tate Modern Museum across the Thames towards St. Paul's Cathedral on the other side.
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We were not allowed to photograph in the galleries; however, the old turbin hall has a most unique construction. It is not possible to see the entire work at any one place.
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The Tower of London from across the Thames.
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Wire screen art on display in the revitalized neighborhood next to the new City Hall.
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Wire screen art on display in the revitalized neighborhood next to the new City Hall.
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This is an evening view of St. Paul's taken from a terrace at the OXO complex.
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