Hotel
My hotel room - here's the bed. I stayed in the Radisson Mountbatten.
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And from the bed, the other side of the room.
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And the bath room - not really dirty, but not exactly totally clean either.
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The view from my room. I got a free upgrade since I complained the last time.
National Gallery
Taken while standing before the National Gallery - Trafalgar Square with Nelson's statue.
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And the square more to the left.
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Coming out of the Gallery after seeing Renoirs landscapes, I had a closer look at the fountains.
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And the National Gallery seen from the other side of Trafalgar square.
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Even if it looks like a cathedral, this building is for the Royal Court of Justice.
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It stretches down quite a bit...
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The dragon guarding the limits of the City of London, with a statue of Queen Victoria.
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Still on Fleet street, a church (St. Dunstan in the West) with a bell which is run - or hit - by two giants (Gog and Magog). To the right a statue of Queen Elizabeth I.
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And here's the - at least for the book - famous temple church, consecrated in 1185.
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The interior of the church, with the stone statues of medieval knights.
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The main body of the church, which was built a bit later.
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The knights again. The room below the figures is actually empty, and...
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... it is not known whether anybody was ever buried here.
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And the knights again.
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And here's another tomb, although I don't know who is buried here.
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The only "tomb" which had no knight. This also caused some confusion in the book.
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The grotesques around the circular part, also described in the book.
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And the circular part of the church, taken from the main part of the church.
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The area outside the church, where the temple area of the Temple Knights used to be long ago.
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Big Ben, just outside the building which was used as King's College library in the movie.
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One of the pelicans in St. James park, but it was quite far away and didn't show itself properly...
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There's a nice bridge in the middle of the park, with a view on one side to Whitehall and...
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... to Buckingham Palace on the other side.
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And here's Westminster Abbey, where one of the more dramatic scenes of the book took place.
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We didn't enter the church, only the cloister besides it. Here's the side of Westminster Abbey.
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There are a lot of tombs in the cloister - here are a few of them.