Dover Castle & our rental car

Here are some more pictures we took at Dover Castle and the final picture is of our little rental car!

A Roman Lighthouse from the first century A.D.

The inside of a Saxon Church.

The "White Cliffs" of Dover.

It was extremely windy!

Here is our little (very, very little) rental car. It is a Ford Ka.

London!

On Saturday we made an impromptu trip to London. We got some great seats for the show, "Spamalot!" so we took the train into London for the day. We enjoyed walking around the city, dinner in Chinatown and especially the show.

The London Eye. We've been on it a few times...but not this trip.

A close-up of one of the "pods," which can hold 20 people (at least).

Big Ben, part of the Houses of Parliament, an iconic feature of London.

This close-up shows the beauty of Big Ben (click on pic to enlarge).

Westminster Abbey (where Princess Diana's funeral was held).

Buckingham Palace & Horse Guards

A few pictures of the Buckingham Palace area plus one of the Horse Guards.

Buckingham Palace...the flag was up so the queen was in that day.

A statue within the roundabout at the Palace.

One of the gates.

One of the guards at the Palace.

One of the Horse Guards (not at the Palace, but in different area of Westminster, London)

Spamalot!...and some other sites

The Palace Theatre where we saw "Spamalot!"

Here we are in The Albert Pub. We stopped in since we had lunch here a few times before when we were in London.

For the Harry Potter fans, here are pictures of the infamous Platform 9 3/4 at London's King's Cross Rail Station.

Botantic Garden

On Saturday we visited the University of Cambridge Botantic Garden. It was a beautiful day and the Garden was highly recommended to us by Doris Keefer who came from Ashland Seminary in Spring 2007. We enjoyed walking through the large (40 acres) complex and seeing some interesting things. We hope you enjoy seeing some of our pictures. (Click on a picture to enlarge it.)

Our camera's timer helped us get a picture of us together.

The large fountain in the center of the complex.

It is hard to believe this was taken in England with the tall bamboo.

We saw palm trees and bushes too.

We think this looks like a large rhubarb plant. It was probably about 6 ft high.

Botanic Garden - Unique Features

We saw some pretty cool things at the Botanic Garden. Here are some of our favorite pictures:

This bird had lots of colors: gray, brown, black and a unique red & yellow beak!

This tree was large and the one branch was very long and hung quite low.

A "Bird of Paradise" flower.

Another unique tree...it is very tall and has an interesting branch too.

These are flowers (not a group of little birds!) that hung down off the plant and had bright red leaves with yellow and green tips.

Botanic Garden - Insects

John also took some amazing photos of insects that we thought you may enjoy seeing.

A bee just after getting the pollen for making honey.

A butterfly taking a break on a black-eyed susan.

A dragonfly resting its wings.

Another bee looking for pollen on these unique flowers.

One more bee on a pretty purple flower.