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I've taken over 600 pictures. Here goes a few choice picks:

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Regent's Park in London
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National Gallery - Holbein's Ambassadors was my favorite
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Excellent place to have lunch in Oxford.
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King's College, Cambridge
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Inside the cathedral at Canterbury
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One of the many rooms in the British Museum.
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Gravestones at Childham
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BEST FISH AND CHIPS EVER!!
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Lord Foul on the roof of the Duomo di Milano



I'll post my Stonehenge pics next time. Might take a year or more to post every pic.
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Wonderful pictures, LF! Were you able to meet up with any British Watchers?
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Nah, unfortunately. The trip was quite a whirlwind. We only had four or five free days. The rest of the time we'd be off and about by 9:00 AM. An average day would be seeing an important cathedral, going to a second important place, eating lunch, a third place, dinner, then a play at the end of the day. Pretty exhausting!
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Sounds mah-velous though. Some day I'll get over there.

I personally think the first two pictures you posted are postcard worthy. :)
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So pretty! Thank you for posting those. I really enjoy it when people share trip-pics online. :D
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Stonehenge pics must wait, cause I can't resist a few random shots from Italy:

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The girl that pinched my butt.
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Massive pizza in Siena
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Constantine's head = pwned by Foul
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Foul punches the Colosseum - "You're fallen, Rome! Stay down!"
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Foul and the gladiator
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Another from the roof of Milan's Duomo
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My Teacher, Marcus Aurelius
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Lord Foul wrote:Foul punches the Colosseum - "You're fallen, Rome! Stay down!"
:LOLS:
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Oh, Foul! I am soooo envious! It is my goal in life to stand in the Colosseum before I die.

Great pics.
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Thanks, Caam. Don't forget to punch the Colosseum, as well! Or kick it. I forgot to do that.

I'll post some Stonehenge pics next time, as well as the rest of my Colosseum pics.
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I spent a week in Rome as an unappreciative 13 year old in 1973 as part of a local teen tour. I would love to go again.

Can you imagine this scenario? I went sightseeing with the rest of the group on the first full day wearing white pants. When we returned that night, they were gray from soot and such in the street, although the skies were blue and there was no smog. I was so disgusted and self rightious, I refused to go out the rest of the week and missed out on the Collosseum and Sistene Chapel.

Ah, what an idiot I was...
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RADIOHEAD T-SHIRT sighting in the coloseum shot!!! :biggrin: :thumbsup:
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Menolly wrote:I spent a week in Rome as an unappreciative 13 year old in 1973 as part of a local teen tour. I would love to go again.

Can you imagine this scenario? I went sightseeing with the rest of the group on the first full day wearing white pants. When we returned that night, they were gray from soot and such in the street, although the skies were blue and there was no smog. I was so disgusted and self rightious, I refused to go out the rest of the week and missed out on the Collosseum and Sistene Chapel.

Ah, what an idiot I was...
My professor brought his two sons with him, and I could easily write a book justifying their slow and merciless end. On the bright side, I got a free ticket to a concert at St. Martin's simply because his 13 year old son didn't want to go. The kid was obviously bored at every church service, be it Westminster or the chapel at King's College. "Hire a teenager while they still know everything!"
Lucimay wrote:RADIOHEAD T-SHIRT sighting in the coloseum shot!!! :biggrin: :thumbsup:
Reminds me: I bought some nice T-shirts during my stay. Got an official Abbey Road, a green Oxford University, and a "Mind the Gap" (London Underground).
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Nice pics Foul. :D Glad you had such a great time. :D

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Hey Foul, did you know that that statue of Marco Aurelio you photographed has a legend attached to it? Wanna know it? :P
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Something to do with photographing it, I assume!
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Not at all, something to do with the end of Rome (or of the world) :P
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Ooo..ooo I wanna know the story.....
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Lorelei wrote:Ooo..ooo I wanna know the story.....
Me too.
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Oh, oh, I wanna know, too, Mr. Kotter!
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Don't tease us Xar. :D

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