{"id":8368,"date":"2025-12-18T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:19:37","slug":"london-day-2-part-2-a-big-walk-about-graffiti-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=8368","title":{"rendered":"London Day 2 (part 2) \u2013 A BIG Walk About & Graffiti Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We just finished Graffiti Tunnel and walked all the way back to our apartment (8 miles or so).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The London Eye<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We took a ride on this in a couple of days. More pictures to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This lion has a story. The plaque is below<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They need to take that bow out of his hand and put an electric guitar there…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Many “decorated” telephone booths in London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Palace of Westminster & Big Ben<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Westminster Abbey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We just couldn’t stomach going into another church\/palace as we’ve seen about 50 of ’em, so we just took pictures from the outside and saved about $60 bucks per place. Many of the museums in London are free, but if you have to pay to get into anything expect to be out of pocket $60 bucks (or more) for two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s Martin Luther King Jr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is the college campus behind the abbey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looks very British to me \ud83d\ude42 Love it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another huge church across the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Statues Everywhere<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Gotta Keep On Moving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Piccadilly Circus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Trafalgar Square<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The square was closed when we were there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reminds me of a song about a homeless guy in Trafalgar Square. Note – The monument in the middle is of Lord Nelson and must be 100 feet high. The four lions are really big:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I live in Trafalgar Square
Four lions to guard me
Fountains and statues all over the place
The ‘Metropole’ staring me right in the face
I admit it’s a trifle drafty
But I look at it this way you see
If it’s good enough for Nelson
It’s quite good enough for me<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We actually dined in a crypt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Journey Continues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Buckingham Palace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Queen Victoria was in charge for 63 years! British queens tend to stick around<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Keep On Walking…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Everyone’s got an arc (except the US). Do we need one? Nope. This one’s definitely the most modest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They had a column for each of the English Colonies. Must have been 10 monuments there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metal Beam Memorial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Got some good shots of this one<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter Wonderland<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On the way back we passed by the Winter Wonderland again. We’ll be getting to that in about a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We just finished Graffiti Tunnel and walked all the way back to our apartment (8 miles or so). The London…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}