london pictorial

Here now is a highlights package of snaps from my London visit - then I promise my blog shall return to Berlin; the Wall, Currywurst, and all things Kraut.

Above: I somehow managed to score 6 iconic red buses in one shot.


Above: Doing the Tourist Thang; Andrew consulting the Lonely Planet outside 'Bucks'.


Above: Ooohhhh Britain! Britain, Britain, Britain.


Above: ABC's London Correspondent Andrew Cook reporting live outside parliament.


Above: Me and Aslan in Trafalgar Square.


Above: The main hall of the Natural History Museum; wonderfully 'oldskool', complete with Brontosaurus skeleton and Gothic architecture. (NB I am still mildly disgruntled about the decision to shift our museum out of the State Library Building and into that minimalist, cavernous, charmless blob on Nicholson St...)


Above: Suspended T-Rex skeleton reminiscent of either Jurassic Park or Ben Stiller's Night at the Museum, depending on your age.


Above: Hamstead Heath in the north of London, with a rare burst of winter sunshine.


Above: The Manor House in Hamstead Heath, and potentially also (the set of) Mr Darcy's summer retreat.


Above: The Millennium Bridge linking the new with the old; St Pauls Cathedral and the Tate Modern. (Note also how the ominous purple sky is reminiscent of Ghostbusters II, after Vigo's evil spirit had been awakened and the National Gallery was coated in slime. )



Above: The Palace Theatre in Spamalot Mode.