| London, England Trip London, England, Jan. 19-24, 2005. Please be patient while this page loads! |
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| President, Anne Storey, (middle) presents the awards to the rats owner. |
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| Connie Perez examines the gerbils & mice at the show. |
| Rats Brought Back from England to OFR! Click on this link to see the rats brought home to OFR |
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| Baby Burmese male, resides at OFR. |
| OFR SITE MAP MAIN |
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| Our Hotel - Small, small twin bedroom & a shared bathroom, but great English Breakfasts at 8 a.m. sharp!! |
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| Connie checking in her luggage at British Airlines in San Francisco airport. (I flew there from Seattle to meet her). We both overpacked, and ended up pushing, pulling, and kicking our luggage through the underground rail system, through the streets of London, to our hotel, right. |
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| Buckingham Palace seen on our first Walking Tour on Friday, Jan. 21. |
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| The Underground railway connects all of London. It took a couple of days, but finally we navigated it well. |
| The London, England sights.... |
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| Pubs serving ale and food, all day are everywhere! I get the impression that the natives love their pubs.. Our fabulous tour guide is in the middle - Jan. 21. |
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| Buckingham Palace - (see the older palace in brown). |
| Westminster Abbey, near Big Ben. Jan. 21 |
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| Marble Arch, near a royal park - Jan. 21 |
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| The royal park we walked through to Westminster Abbey - Jan. 21 |
| The NFRS Bradford Championships Show...Jan. 22. See more pics. here. |
| The London, England sights....Jan. 23 |
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| St. Paul's Cathedral - Jan. 23 |
| St. Paul's Cathedral - Jan. 23 |
| Our London friends, Shelia, Sue, & Connie - Jan. 23 |
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| Walk to River Thames. St. Pauls in background. - Jan. 23 |
| A Gothic church that held the bodies of the dead under guard so grave-robbers could not sell the bodies to science for extra cash. - Jan. 23 |
| This is London Bridge - a bit of a dissapointment, but as the song says... London Bridge is falling down. This is the rebuilt one. See Tower Bridge behind. Jan. 23. |
| Still on the walking tour, (excellent tours by London Walks Co.) This is a Victorian Mall, a surprise as we walked out from a narrow alleyway! Jan. 23. |
| Another surprise at the end of the Tour! We end up at a gothic castle right in the middle of London! |
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| Picadilly Circus! We popped up out of the underground rail, to see this busy and energy charged center of London. That is what makes London so interesting, there is a mixture of old and new buildings, of all eras, in the small city. |
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| Later at night, Connie and I go on a Jack the Ripper tour to see the sights of white chapel where the horror occured. Above is the neighborhood we explored. A lively pub is on the right, above. |
| The night we flew in, we walked to Buckingham Palace and took pictures. See the spikes on top of the palace gate. Jan. 20. |
| Connie stands by one of London's lively red mailboxes! |
| Getting Around... |