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Our tour guide had to "mind her head" at several points to keep from getting swatted by tree branches |
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The official City of Liverpool tribute to the Fab Four |
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Betwys-y-Coed in northern Wales. Nice town, tacky hotel. |
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Bath, England. A beautiful town full of warm stone buildings, with one of England's seven Avon rivers running through the middle |
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Lots of modest-sized dogs in England. You have to admire the way killer-dog mania has not caught on over there. |
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Caernafon Castle -- looks so great, you'd think it was made for Disney. But it's almost 1000 years old. |
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Inside the castle: a huge green square. We were in this castle when Ireland came back to tie their World Cup game. The town went nuts. |
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The view of the town from Caernafon castle |
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There must be fewer lawyers hawking English society, because this gnarly, extremely cool, spiral staircase to the top of a turret couldn't happen here |
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The Original (copy of the) Cavern Club |
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Shopping at the Ludlow Castle shop |
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A grave in the church where Paul met John at a Quarrymen gig in 1957. "Eleanor Rigby, Died in the church and was buried along with her name."
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Perched on a grassy hill overlooking the Thames and east London, the Royal Observatory |
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The view north from the Royal Observatory |
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The Millenium dome. Didn't make it there. |
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What this clock says, you better believe |
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The bizarre Princess Diana/Dodi Fayed shrine at Harrod's Department Store |
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An Ironmongery appears to be a hardware store, with some pots and pans thrown in |
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Near the Cavern Club, this bronze John |
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Supposedly, every act that played the Cavern Club signed this wall (replica) |
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The bus driver's wife was in Ringo's high school class |
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We saw sheep everywhere in England, especially in Wales. And when the lambs nurse, their little tails wag like crazy |
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Our tour group observes Paul McCartney's house. Many Beatle songs were written here and tried on on Paul's dad and brother |
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We were having a bit of a bummer in Oxford the last day of the trip, but this troupe of Polish folk dancers picked us up a little |
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A bold seagull stalks our room at the Best Western in northern Wales |
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Slate mining was/is an industry in Wales |
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The feet on the mother swan have to be seen to be believed. Graceful, those feet are not. |
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Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare and much of his family are intombed at the foot of the alter. It costs a pound to get close. |
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Allegedly, an orphanage behind John's boyhood home. |
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Tenby, South Wales: spectacular but rainy and windy the day we were there |
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Our "capsule," in The London Eye |
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The Intrepid Travellers at 400 feet |
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The Victoria monument, outside Buckingham Palace |
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Rolls Royces for sale a couple of blocks from our Mayfair hotel |
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Spielberg looked so real it was creepy |
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Robbin hangs with leading figures of the 25th century |
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Robbin in front of the houses of parliment |
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Compared to this tiny vehicle, our Ford KA rental car was a Chevy Suburban |
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Notting Hill street market |
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Wacky British shower plumbing |
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Robbin by the Albert Memorial |
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How many holes does it take to fill the Albert Hall? |
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The Albert Memorial. They apparently thought the world of this guy. |
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Gizmos at the science museum |
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Yeah, and your point is...? |
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Calculation machine by Charles Babbage |
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In the lobby of the Victoria and Albert Musuem |
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Egyptian Loot at the British Museum |
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Mummies, the British Museum has Mummies, Lots of Mummies |
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St. Paul's Cathedral. Home of Admiral Nelson's remains and the Crypt Cafe |
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Deep down in the Crypt Cafe |
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Robbin at the Tower of London |
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Quoth the raven: "Cheese" |
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A Beefeater. Actual British soldier -- this guy had been in Desert Storm! |
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A modern "carbuncle" as seen from Tower Bridge |
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A nice lady took our picture on Tower Bridge |
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Robbin, with the Tower of London in the background |
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Random pageantry encountered near Buckingham Palace |
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Buckingham Palace, and in the foreground, the Victoria Momument |
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Some clouds, some sun, some rain--universal daily English weather forecast |
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Before the changing of the guards |
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My camera did a great job of close-focusing on the bars. Sigh. |
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Cromwell's statue is just across the street from Westminster Abbey -- burial place of the royalty. |
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The London Eye -- surely the world's largest ferris wheel. |
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