Posts Tagged ‘London’

A somewhat battered-looking female Black Swallowtail spent a long time fluttering around the butterfly bush in our front yard. Took many pics during her visit.

My flight to Bangalore on British Airways had been overbooked, so I had the option of staying in London for another day, and being well compensated for it as well. So I and a colleague from ARM both opted to stay behind an extra day, and we spent a few hours touring London.

We first went to the Victoria and Albert Museum, where I took photos… and then the battery in my camera conked out.

Then we headed to Oxford Street. The following pics were all shot using the camera on my iPhone, capturing the street at the end of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations:

Oxford Street 1

Oxford Street 2

Oxford Street 3

Immediately after going to the Doctor Who Experience (and being the last to leave it for the day) we found a cab and headed over to go on the London Eye. The girls had already been on it a couple of days earlier with my cousins Philip and Kenneth, but I wanted to go on it with the girls, and I knew it was close to the train station we needed to get to.

It was a fun ride with the girls, and the views of London were incredible. Here are some of my pics.

This was my first full, real vacation day away from anything having to do with the conference I was attending earlier in the week, so I took the opportunity to head down to London with the girls.

One thing that we had all wanted to see was the Dr. Who Experience, an exhibition being held at the Olympia Exhibition Center. While you cannot take pics of the actual “Experience” itself, which is an interactive set of movies/displays where you have to rescue the latest Doctor from the clutches of the Pandorica Mark II. Along the way you get to go inside the Doctor’s Tardis and play around in his control room, then land on a Dalek ship in the middle of a war, then get to see a short 3D movie where various Doctor Who baddies try to reach at you from the screen. I couldn’t shoot any of that, but I was allowed to shoot everything else that you see here.

(Since this is a popular page, I have added a few more images to the gallery below).