Wateloo Bridge (the other way)

See 26 June for the information relating to the bridge

In this direction you can see from left to right:

Royal Festival Hall

London Eye

Houses of Parliament

Big Ben (the tower housing Big Ben - the bell, is to be renamed the Elizabeth Tower to honour the Queen's Jubilee

Hungerford Bridge - a a steel truss railway bridge-sometimes known as the Charing Cross Bridge-flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation piers, and which are properly named the Golden Jubilee Bridges

Victoria Embankment - construction started in 1865 and was completed in 1870. The original impetus was the need to provide London with a modern sewerage system. Another major consideration was the relief of congestion on the Strand and Fleet Street.

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Note that although the skies are not so blue it was very warm walking across London today

The thing that made me smile: I met a 14 week border terrier called Maggie as I walked up the road from the train station. I bent down to talk to her and she snuggled down on my lap. She was lovely

Did crunches to: Radio - Ed Sheeran