Canadians Honeymoon in Africa...lots o' pics!

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Moto North

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Welll I wasn't going to bother posting a report because we ddidn't actually do alot of riding but I've had a number of requests so here goes...

We flew out of Toronto with a 14 hour stop-over in London! So even though we didn't get any sleep on the plane, we decided instead of lazing around in the dingey, crowded, noisy Heathrow airport, we jumped on the tube for a quick run into the city. Here's a few pics of our one day whirlwind tour of London.

Big Ben
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Buckingham Palace/ Changing of the guards
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Tower of London
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Thats my new bride, by the way..
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Bloody tourists always getting in your shots... :-X
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Beefeaters...the one on the right looks like he's eaten his share of beef.  ;D
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Traitors Gate...this is how they used to bring the prisoners into the tower, by boat on the Thames river.
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More tower pics
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The broken down section of wall in the midle of the pic is actually the remains of a Roman wall...pretty amaizing that they built the original tower grounds on Roman ruins and didn't distrurb them
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The river Thames, downtown London
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Touring around on a double decker bus
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Found a Star Trek action figure on the floor of the bus...Here's Captain Kirk at Westminster Abby  :D
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Touring the streets of London...typical big city traffic...Yuck!
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How can you not look like a complete Twat riding one of these...it even has a seatbelt! What a nerd.
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Capt Kirk visits the house of Parliment ..
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Walking through a downtown park. We really lucked out to have such a nice sunny day in England. ...They rent these deck chairs by the hour.
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The London Eye
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Took a boat ride down the Thames. Check out all the cranes...lots of construction everywhere.
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Tower bridge and old Naval ship/ floating museum
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They call the building The Big Pickle...I couldn't figure why??
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I'm a volunteer Fire Fighter so I can't resist popping in to the local Firehalls when I travel. Always interesting meeting Brothers from around the world, they always welcome you in and are interested to here how things are done in Canada and to show you around and compare stories etc.
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What trip to England would be complete without stopping for a pint in a London pub. This was the end of a loooong day. We are beat! We've now been up for about 32 hours!
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Fish n Chips...what else
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Boy did we ever sleep good on the flight out of London!

Well thats about it for London. Now its off to Cape Town where the real excitement starts! I have to get some work done though so you'll have to wait till later for me to post some more.
Here's a teaser though
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Cheers!












 
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