London 1st week - a photoblog

Intro to the new:

House 16

1st dandelion

Room views

1st day shopping @ Sainsbury's & Ikea

Peppermint tea @ Covent Garden

Echoes of the old:

@ Chinatown, and the durians we saw (so expensive!!!)

Malaysian restaurant proudly flying the standard

Trishaw in London? Seriously... be original!

New sights:

Big Ben, and me "trying" to call home

1st taste of pub food @ O'Neill's (no beer please!)

Covent Garden Market, and the interesting still life outside

The many faces of London Eye, by day and by night

We're going on the London Eye!

Sunset on the River Thames

Leicester Square pub, called "The Crooked Surgeon" - how "appropriate" for us!

Which is the real London Bridge?

The different shapes and sizes of the guards of the Tower of London

The White Tower, of the Tower of London

Medieval Madness @ the lawns of Tower of London

"...just like Monopoly...":

Oxford Street

Leicester Square

Piccadilly Circus

Trafalgar Square (we were here when it was raining - alternative travelling)

Notting Hill Carnival:

Bobbies (nope, not part of the Carnival procession)

Carribean Jerk Chicken lunch

The dancing (and prancing) participants of the Carnival...

... and not forgetting the boom boxes.