London Eye and St. Paul's Cathedral

Hello again. This morning I made a phone call to set up an international bank account with Lloyds to cut down on the cost of sending money back to Canada. (It's 25 pence per 100 pounds, rather than 30 pounds per transaction.) After arranging that, I set out to explore London again. For today, I thought I would check out the London Eye on the suggestion of my housemates. If you've never been on it, it is a gigantic ferris wheel which gives one a perfect birds-eye view of the landscape on either side of the Thames River. The wheel is continuously moving at a very slow pace, such that people just get on and off while it is moving (though they will occasionally stop it momentarily for the elderly or disabled). The movement is slow enough to allow for very clear pictures taken while in motion. Here are a few shots I took:

Big Ben and the Parliament buildings behind

This art display involved the trees all being festooned with this red-and-white polka dotted material, on which passersby were writing messages.

Then I headed towards St. Paul's Cathedral. When I arrived just after 4, I discovered that sightseeing hours had just ended for the day. I chose not to stay for the 5 pm service, much as that would have been very interesting, and save that for another day.

This actually isn't St Paul's. It's the "Royal Courts of Justice," with an appropriately imposing edifice...

This however, is St. Pauls. I shall have to return another day and see inside.

I then took a bus to London Bridge, where I got some good information for travelling about the southern end of London and environs. This final picture is a of the ubiquitous taxi--they are all this shape and make of car, though some of them are painted in fancier colours.