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Lions Club tour in Herzogenbosch (the city of H. Bosch) Vaux le Vicomte castle

Club Polyglott excursion to London and Bath

London



The city and the Thames


East End, the Gherkin in the background




We flew over clouds







On the sea, wind power station





Arriving to the delta of the Thames


We arrived to London City airport 



and the hotel was in the Docklands area











A remaining small warehouse
O2 Arena at night
and day










Docklands museum

In an old warehouse on the side of a channel a museum shows the history of the Docklands area which was the transport hub of London



 



Monument to the builders of  care facilities
for the veterans of the West-Indies

Helmsman

Shops


From the museum through East end to the City


   



A mission for poor people




Walk in the Notting Hill area and Portobello Market






The Ukrainian representation with the statue
of Saint Wladimir on the corner

 
As the area was rich in clay, there were a lot of such kilns, producing mainly tiles

The house of Emily Plankhurst, the founder of the 
movement for allowing women to vote




Notting Hill community church

Notting Hill bookshop, featuring in the film "Notting Hill"








Portobello Market





London city itself

From the Docklands, the Docklands Light Railway takes us to Tower Hill



while the bus goes through the East End




and suddenly you see the City of London office buildings


On a bus
Along Oxford street

The gate of Africa House

On the Thames


Bush house

The house where Mr Poirot
lived (according to the BBC tv series)

In the Barbican quarter among nice old houses,


Near Smithfield Market


and the Queen Elisabeth Infirmary




Liverpool street station

With the monument of the "children's transport in front


The royal Cort of Justice

Twinings tea shop





Essex street Brewery


St Mary le Strand



Essex street