england trip pics- community, ruins and weapons(new stuff!)

[alsih2o]

at the top- hampton court place, upon arrival...here henry woudl spend his time with his favorites, and avoid the rest as best he could

at the bottom- hampton court palace as we left 2 hours later. less than 2 inches of snow, but it evidently doesn't snow in london too often. people were stuck on one highway for 20 hours!

they had the military out running them food and portable toilet trucks.

if you ever get near it, try this awesome experience, the kitchen is bigger than my house

 

[alsih2o]

whoops, here is the pic

 

[alsih2o]

top- the orcs nest, the famous london game shop. they have it, it is in a cool building with cool industrial features and they are as rude as they can be. i bought a t-shirt anyway because their logo is so cool, just the center orc on a black tshirt, doesn't even say orcs nest on it.

bottom, city hall seen thru the outer wall of the tower of london. i wish this one had come out better, as the juxtaposition of the 2 was great

 

[alsih2o]

top- proof of the dire elk. this thing was MIGHTY impressive to this tiny deer hunter

bottom- a chuihuly glass sculpture, wrapped for cleaning and moving. i love this image, chihuly meets christo meets cthulu.

 

[Crothian]

That glass sculpture is wicked cool!!!

 

[alsih2o]

my wife at breakfast in the basement of the jolly st ermin, our hotel. black pudding, haggis, sauteed mushrooms, pork and leek sausages, tomatoes, scrambled eggs, bacon, baked beans, and tea.

boy do they look at you funny when you ask for ice and pour your tea over it everyone at the st. ermin was great, but we were concerned for a while. when we arrived there was a police riot van outside.... this seemed unusual for a 4 star hotel but we proceeded in without seeing anything unusual going on. the next day there are 2 riot vans and 2 police cars, but still no ruckus to be seen.

by the third day there were 3 riot vans and 8 police cars.

we went a different direction out of the hotel that day and it turns out new scotland yard was right around the corner and we hadn't noticed turns out they were just using the parking

 

[EricNoah]

Good pics! I hadn't seen any of Russ with his hair short ...

 

[alsih2o]

here some form the tower of london.

top- me with some guys armor, the guy was 6 foot 9 inches tall, he musta been one scary sob in all that metal.

bottom right- give up, they have more guns than you do. i asked how the guns would have been kept in the era, and they said just like this. these weren't the ones you used, these were the fully functional ones you draped everywhere just to show what an arsenal you had...it was insane!

bottom left- one of the executioners blocks used in the tower of london, and the matching axe

 

[alsih2o]

more tower pics-

top- a guard with, i beliveve a certain gnome, right there on the window sill!

middle- the wife unit and i across fromthe "tower"

bottom- 1 of a group of polearms i tried to get pics of. the museum lighting made it very hard.

 

[Airwolf]

I love Morrus and the gnome, a very intersting expression on his face

Great pics Clay!!

Which one, the gnome or Morrus?