Paddington Station, upon our arrival on the Heathrow Express.

...riding the Heathrow Express into London, the first day

While waiting for our hotel check in, we walked to Westminster....

....took a cruise on the Thames to the Tower Bridge.

We walked up and down Regent St. to Piccadilly Circus and...

....saw Trafalgar Square in the distance....

Trafalgar Square

Our first view of Big Ben

Tim catching up on World News.....as we ate as soon as we got in town.

The entrance to our hotel, the Edwardian Sussex.  Pretty tiny and expensive.

Looks like our room...

The Nayland Hotel is where we stayed our last night.

Here’s our room at the Nayland.

Guarding Downing Street.

Westminster, Houses of Parliament

The Thames and the London Eye.

Riding the London Eye

...rode the London Eye and visited a Goya exhibition.

There I am blocking the view of the  Thames and providing grief to Tim. It’s my job!

Some guy kept sitting next to me.  I think his name is Tim. He ate Poulet Fernier a lot.

Thames from the London Eye

Tower Bridge from the cruise ship.

Westminster from the Eye

Riding down escalators to the Tube station. 

Looking back up

The Central Line....we were on that one a lot.

Piccadilly Circus area.

Her Majesty’s Theater

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square

St James Park

St James Park

Tim with Sir Winston

St James Park entry and Buckingham Palace

Buckingham

Buckingham Gates

Street scenes around the Tate Museum

Street scenes around the Tate Museum

Street scenes around the Tate Museum

Tower of London

Tower of London Parade Ground

Tower of London Model

Chapel in the Tower

Another Chapel in the Tower

Yet another chapel

Tower Bridge from Tower of London

Tim and a really skinny friend.

John with the Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge....really a quintessential London scene.

British Museum

The Rosetta Stone

Egyptian artifacts....

Roman Temple

Artifacts from the Parthenon

Yikes, this guy is in shape

Mummfied pets...

Kitties

Great Roman sculptures

St. Pauls from the Tate Museum

St Pauls

Views from the tower of St Pauls

The Tate Museum is directly across the Thames from St Pauls

Me stalking down the St Pauls tower stairs.

Tim, trying to look tall....

Regent Street

Victoria Palace Theater

Hogan Fulton was an incredible performer. Billy Elliott was exceptional.

Royal Albert Hall

We attended Prom #10--an organ recital

We were directly underneath the box featured in the “Man Who Knew Too Much”

West Side Story

Sadlers Wells Theater

I really liked the production.  Tim was less enthusiastic, but still thought it was great.

Coliseum

Forum at night.

Portion of the Trevi Foundain at night.

Tim

and John at dinner, our first night in Rome.

Looking our our window at the 66 Imperial Inn towards the Opera House