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| Piccadilly Circus: Tons of flashing lights and billboards. Reminds me of Times Square. Connie and I really wanted to get pictures with the Statue of Eros, but you can only catch it on random days when it's not surrounded by ten foot tall boards. Today was not one of those random days. Notice the GAP. There's a GAP on every single block on Oxford Street. I'm not kidding. It's evil. |
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| Leicester Square: the Charlie Chaplin Statue. I call Mom on my cellphone from here every once in a while and she tries to find me on the Leicester Square Internet Cam. "Wait! Wait! I see... a cafe with green umbrellas and two kiosks!" And off I go running through the pigeons and tourists to try and catch the camera before it switches to another shot. I thought Mom might like to see Charlie from the front side for a change. |
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| Chinatown: unfortunately, by the time we ran across Leicester Square to Chinatown, it was 3:30 PM. It's pitch black by 4 in England in the winter. This is not a happy thing. Anyway, that's me on the left, and that's both Connie and me on the right, courtesy of a passing tourist who wanted HIS picture taken. Sorry they're so dark--there's only so much a flash can do from that distance. |
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| I probably have two dozen pictures of the Peter Pan statue now, but this one turned out pretty well, so you'll have to suffer viewing another one. This last minute trip to Kensington Gardens was at the request of Connie, who hadn't yet had a picture taken in front of the statue. I figured I'd take just one more while I was there. By the time we finished, it was dark and raining, so we called it a day. |