London 2009

My son, daughter-in-law, and their children recently moved to London, where they hosted an insider's view of the city for my wife and I.

London
--Freud house
--Freud's neighborhood
--Daleham Mews
--Camden Locks

Travel to York
--English countryside
--Village

York views
--Lendal Bridge
--Lendal Tower
--View toward cathedral
--York Minster
--Interior of Minster
--Tomb
--Flying buttresses
--View from central tower
--Medieval town viewed from tower
--Town views
--Gargoyles
--Shambles
--York pub
--York walls
--National Railway Museum

Travel to Greenwich
--Tower bridge from south
--View of London from Greenwich
--Henry VIII plaque
--Sailor's chapel
--Royal Naval College
--Royal Observatory

Miscellaneous London neighborhoods and street scenes
--Belgravia
--Natural History Museum
--Window dressing
--Queen's Garden
--Hampstead cottage
--Hampstead street
--Hampstead pub
--The other half
--London buses

Sigmund Freud lived and worked in this house in London after fleeing the Nazis. (below)

Typical Hampstead houses in Freud's neighborhood.

A quaint street in the heart of London, Daleham Mews.

Camden town near Camden Locks. Counterculture central in London.

A visit to York

English countryside from train window on trip to York in the north of England.

Small English town as viewed from train.

Views of York

Lendal Tower

York Minster cathedral

Minster entrance

Interior of York Minster

Painted figures on tomb in Minster

For a small entrance fee, one can climb (275 steps) to the top of the central tower of the cathedral. The following are shots of the Minster and views of the medieval central town.