Sunday, December 17, 2006

Tower bridge and the river eastwards to the sea!

Thanks Miss Sunshade, London is a cool place to live most of the time. The decorations in town are just fab but do not come up to the New York shops standards....my friends blog has real great photos.



I think I should post some more photos of London!


This photo is of Tower bridge and taken from Butlers Wharf. You can see in the background to the right of the photo "The Gherkin", the newest most beautiful building in the City now days. It was designed by Sir Norman Foster who has designed many buildings around the world.


This next photo is taken from the same place but looking East towards Canary Wharf. The white building is the Design museum and that is a pretty cool place to go and see all kinds of wonderful things. To the left of the museum is a lovely place to eat but they don't allow dogs so we didn't go in, I just sniffed the air as we walked past.

Now here is the back of the above photo. What used to be the Wharfs where men used to unload all the boats from round the world with very interesting deliveries right up until the early 1960's. There are now lots of posh and fancy apartments. It has become very trendy to live here and there are lots of very nice doggies living in these places too.

This photo is taken facing Canary Wharf with all the new great big skyscrapers in the background. Canary Wharf used to be a derelect place with slums and very poor housing. 25 years ago this all started to change with these great big buildings being built and London City airport being opened. Now this is like a City in itself with several big companies based there and the introduction of a new rail line the Docklands railway too. Housing has also been built and it costs an arm and a leg to move out there but very trendy. The river goes out to sea from here and out to the Thames estuary and the English Channel.

8 comments:

Freda said...

Oy Loui,

Cooools photos from your spy camera. All the pics make my humans want to return to your greats city. But it will a be whiles. They just got back from Porto and will be goin' to Disneylands soon.

Glad you found me. I know I exist somewheres in the big ether. I'm not in the Beta world yet. Guess I'll have to go soons.

Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Wuufs!

Eugene Salomon said...

Hey, I found you! Do keep the pictures of London coming, and thanks for the links!
L, Gene

Scrappy and Pebbles said...

Thank you for visiting my blog.

My dad loved your pictures. He is from England so I have saved a link to you so grandad can also see your wonderful pics of his home town too.

Tail wags
~Scrappy

Toby said...

Hi Loui,

The pictures are beautiful!~ I've never been to London before, but we've heard lots of great things from friends/relatives that have been there. Maybe one day Mommy will take me?

Tobes

Unknown said...

Wow, your country is beautiful!! It looks so clean and romantic! Luv it, keep the pictures coming!

Marvin -The Hollow Hound said...

hi loui, we like your new blog!

good pics!

marvin x

Aramis said...

Hi Loui,
MTLH just came in and saw the photos you had on here. She has always wanted to go to England. She said that she almost got a Nanny job near London. She was sad when she didn't but she says that if she had gone she would never had met Dad and we wouldn't live with her so I guess it's good she didn't go!

She said that she still hopes to go one day, and you know what... if she does Carbi and I get to go too because we are assistance dogs and go everywhere with MTLH and Dad! So maybe one day we will come and play with you.
Licks
Aramis

Sunshade said...

Wow.... So nice..

Makes me want to go to Europe so bad, you never see this kind of scenery here in North America.

Love nibbles,
Miss Sunshade