{"id":7860,"date":"2005-12-01T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/uk-and-washington-dc-trip\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:48","slug":"uk-and-washington-dc-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/uk-and-washington-dc-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Washington DC Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"


Looking along the Millenium Brige across the Thames
towards St. Paul’s Cathedral.<\/center><\/p>\n

I’ve suddenly realized that I hadn’t made anything more than a two small<\/a> posts<\/a> mentioning that I had photo galleries of my UK trip up. Well, I’m going to make a bit bigger one here, tagging the photo galleries themselves and some specific images.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to mention a ton of different images here, only the more notable ones. If you want to see lots of detail, please take a look at the main album from this trip itself (photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here goes:<\/p>\n

UK and Washington DC Area (November 2005) (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

London (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

· My room at the Albert Hotel (hostel).<\/a>
\n· Nifty stencil graffiti found along the Thames.<\/a>
\n· The boat I took from the Tate: Britian to the Tate: Modern.<\/a>
\n· Rachel Whitread’s ‘Embankment’ in the Tate Modern.<\/a>
\n· Tate Modern from the Millenium Bridge.<\/a>
\n· The London Eye and the Houses of Parliment as seen at night from the Hungerford Bridge.<\/a>
\n· Tralfargar Square at night.<\/a>
\n· The Canadian War Memorial.<\/a>
\n· Inside of the Natural History Museum.<\/a>
\n· A rather graphic example of how dirty the air can be in London.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scotland (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

· The road leading out of Waverley Station in Edinburgh.<\/a>
\n· Walking into Edinburgh Castle.<\/a>
\n· Sunset in Anstruther.<\/a>
\n· Me, standing on a sea wall in Anstruther, along the North Sea.<\/a>
\n· Some of the ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral.<\/a>
\n· John (the person I stayed with in Scotland) and I pointing at a bust of Mary, Queen of Scots in his parents living room.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wales (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

· Robin and Giles.<\/a>
\n· Robin and I.<\/a>
\n· Giles and Yak as we played some We Love Katamari.<\/a>
\n· The bilingual (Welsh & English) sign at the St. Peters Car Park in Carmarthenshine, Wales.<\/a>
\n· Taj, the wonderful curry house in Carmarthen.<\/a>
\n· Me standing with Giles and Yak in the really nice pub right near their house.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Washington DC (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

· SpaceShipOne!<\/a>
\n· The crappy pizza I got at the McDonalds at the Museum.<\/a>
\n· A German V2.<\/a>
\n· Messerschmitt 109.<\/a>
\n· Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1.<\/a>
\n· An SS-20 and a Pershing-II.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Album)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

· Russian-made SA-2 marked for export.<\/a>
\n· The Enola Gay.<\/a>
\n· A Concorde.<\/a>
\n· Looking out of the Observation Tower.<\/a>
\n· MiG-17 Fishbed.<\/a>
\n· The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is huge.<\/a>
\n· Another view of a Concorde.<\/a>
\n· The SR-71A seen from above, with the Space Shuttle Enterprise in the distance.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

· Outside of the National Museum of the American Indian.<\/a>
\n· A hymnal written in Cherokee.<\/a>
\n· The US Capitol from near the Botanical Gardens.<\/a>
\n· Inside of one of the Metro trains.<\/a>
\n· The Washington Monument.<\/a>
\n· The Atlantic side of the World War II Memorial.<\/a>
\n· The Three Service Men statue, part of The Vietnam Veterens Memorial.<\/a>
\n· The Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial is being worked on.<\/a>
\n· Part of the Korean War Veterens Memorial.<\/a>
\n· Julia Child’s Kitchen!<\/a>
\n· Sunset behind the Washington Monument.<\/a>
\n· These guys were drumming on the street.<\/a>
\n· One of the Metro stations as I waited for my train.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Transit (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

· The A330 I flew to and from London has a nice game \/ video on demand \/ info screen in the back of each seat.<\/a>
\n· The Gatwick Express is a nice way to get from Gatwick (LWG) to Victoria Station.<\/a>
\n· The rather famous power plant, as seen from the Gatwick Express.<\/a>
\n· Train Platform 1 in Cardiff, at 4:55am.<\/a>
\n· A mushroom and cheddar baguette which I ate when en route from Victoria Station to Gatwick Airport (LGW).<\/a>
\n· Just outside the international arrivals area at Gatwick Airport (LGW).<\/a>
\n· Most of Gatwick Airport (LWG) looks like a shopping mall.<\/a>
\n· I flew in an aircraft like this from Gatwick (LGW) to Edinburgh (EDI).<\/a>
\n· The A330 I flew in back to Detroit.<\/a>
\n· My tasty vegetarian meal on the LGW to DTW flight.<\/a>
\n· The interesting mobile passanger lounges at Dulles Airport (IAD).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Travel Documents (Album) (photo gallery retired)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

· My lengthy train ticket from Edinburgh Waverley to Carmarthen.<\/a>
\n· Passes for the London Underground and the Gatwick Express.<\/a>
\n· Various boarding passes.<\/a>
\n· Tags from seat reservations on various trains.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, yeah. Lots of pictures… Hopefully you’ll find them interesting.<\/p>\n

Oh! Also be sure to check out this video of the guys drumming on plastic buckets and a shopping cart along The Mall in Washington DC<\/a>. It’s really quite nifty. (H.264, so QT7 is required.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking along the Millenium Brige across the Thamestowards St. Paul’s Cathedral. I’ve suddenly realized that I hadn’t made anything more than a two small posts mentioning that I had photo galleries of my UK trip up. Well, I’m going to make a bit bigger one here, tagging the photo galleries themselves and some specific images.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13769,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/13769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}