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Heathrow

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Yeah, I did the cheesy "I just got through customs! Time for a picture!". At the end of this hallway, I had a fight with the ticket machine for the Underground. I won.

Hotel room #1

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:47:21 MDT

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The Bed. [And the carry-ons.]

Hotel Room #1b

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:15 MDT

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... A different shot. Because apparently I needed a photo of the hairdryer that I wouldn't use?

Mirror shot #1

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:14 MDT

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Solo trip = dorky pictures of myself. I had just gotten off the plane.

Mirror shot #2

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:13 MDT

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No clue why I felt like I needed to take more than one picture of myself in this room. I was just that excited to be in London...

Mistake

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:12 MDT

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If I weren't so lazy, I'd delete this from this album. Sorry, everyone. Ahem. What I mean to say is, look at the craftsmanship of that cabinet...

Mirror shot #3

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:11 MDT

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God, it must seem like I love myself.

The shot down the street

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:10 MDT

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Looking out the window of the room at the Manor Hotel in Earl's Court.

Manor Hotel

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If you squint, you can almost make out the sign...

No Junk Mail

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:08 MDT

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I loved these stickers. I'd also love to have one for myself.

anti-vandal paint

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:07 MDT

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Cute.

A park I couldn't get into

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Street shot #50923

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No clue what that building is, but I liked it...

Natural History Museum

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From the south. I ended up wandering here from my hotel, completely sans map or any idea of where I was going.

Natural History Museum (more)

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:03 MDT

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Phenomenal building, no?

....

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bet you can't guess what this is...

Men's fashion

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:46:01 MDT

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Thanks, V&A Museum. Love this display.

Impossible

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?

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I just know it's old.

"You Are Here"

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:58 MDT

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Just for you, mom

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:57 MDT

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Beatrix Potter, take one

And again...

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Another...

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And yet another

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And again...

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Last one.

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Pooh!

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So cute.

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Yup.

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Forbidden

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Taken through a barred window in the V&A Museum; a guard looked at me funny when I stopped to do this...

But really gorgeous.

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:48 MDT

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Light + Geometry = Beautiful.

Hand dryer

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:47 MDT

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The most high-powered dryer ever. I felt like the skin on my hands was going to rip off, which would be okay because the blood flow would immediately be dried up. It was that powerful.

Africa

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:46 MDT

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Part of the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. [I think that's the name of the collection of statues and gaudy gold...]

Gazelles or...?

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:45 MDT

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I mean. Hyde Park.

Italian Garden

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:44 MDT

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Found in the north bit of Kensington Garden

Baywater Road

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:43 MDT

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The fence is Kensington Gardens. This was taken shortly after I saw a couple fall off of their motorcycle.

Mistake

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:42 MDT

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But kind of a cool shot anyway. In some world...

Puss in Boots

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:41 MDT

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How a place with this name could be oob is beyond me.

Random building

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:40 MDT

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Just liked how decorated it was. Yay London architecture.

Looking back on the sex street

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:39 MDT

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Under that building with the light, all your dirty dreams could come true. If you're a man.

Not meant for me

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:38 MDT

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I think this was just east of Piccadilly Circus

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:37 MDT

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random shot

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:36 MDT

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Night shot

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I fail at the night setting, though.

Oh how I fail...

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:34 MDT

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A little chapel inside Westminster

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:33 MDT

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Baptismal font

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:32 MDT

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Backlit like crazy, but still beautiful.

No clue

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:31 MDT

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Some old church near Westminster...

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Westminster Abbey

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:29 MDT

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And someone else's memory, apparently.

Houses of Parliament

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:28 MDT

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Across the street from the Abbey

more of the Houses

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:27 MDT

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Massive building.

And a bit more

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:26 MDT

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Plus the London Eye in the background. I did NOT do that this time around having been forced to when I was fifteen.

Bench art

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:25 MDT

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"Put up hands 4 London We love this city!"

Blackfriar's crypt

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:24 MDT

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Apparently a huge history of printing/publishing happened in this church...

Random shot of Burnhill

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:23 MDT

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Blank

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:22 MDT

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I'd love to know what was covered here. Also, what constitutes a rogue?

Park

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:22 MDT

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I sat on a bench up there; people looked at me like I was crazy.

more Burnhill.

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:21 MDT

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York Castle Museum

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:21 MDT

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I didn't go in, but I did take a picture of a window and roofline. No clue why.

Blake

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:20 MDT

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Off of Gillygate

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My B and B was down the left side of this street.

De-Foe

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:19 MDT

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Re-United.

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I love that last line. Apparently it's an English thing.

Lookin' for a show?

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:18 MDT

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I don't think that's ever happened when I've kissed, but there's still time, I suppose.

A cemetery in York

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:18 MDT

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Beautiful.

Outside Kings Cross

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:17 MDT

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Cemetery

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Blink.

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the canal at Camden

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:16 MDT

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I had just had an amaretto corretto at 1 in the afternoon. Yeah, what of it?

Gorgeous.

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Camden (looking south)

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Love the paint.

Regent's Canal

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Shortly after seeing this sign, a woman was complaining about her dog jumping into the canal. "Just goes to show you all good looking men is trouble!"

=)

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Under the face...

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:14 MDT

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...it would say "Venice".

Maude?

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Happiest gravestone ever! If I'm ever buried, I want my stone to be the absolute antithesis of a gravestone.

Bench along the canal

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:13 MDT

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How sweet.

Black cat

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Typical London graffiti

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Misty hair

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Me on the wall while it misted. Per usual.

Whiskey Tears

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:11 MDT

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What a yard!

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Helicopter

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York Station

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At least I think so. Wait! No, this is Newcastle. Worst mistake I made the entire trip: hopped on the wrong train from York.

Best wall ever

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Scottish grafitti

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In Edinburgh now...

Banksy's maid

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Yeah, it may have been buffed by the time I saw it, but still...

Edinburgh at night

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:08 MDT

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No clue what this place was, but it was well-guarded.

Closer

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:07 MDT

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Skull

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He's all over the damn world...

Little green army man

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Official or grafitti?

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Thought it was the latter, but that dog is on every block like this, so I have to think Edinburgh is trying to spruce up their yellow cement blocks in an interesting way...

Some art space

BeautyThusBecome — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:05 MDT

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I was wandering around after dark. This was some side street in the West End.

Random close

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Taking this picture made at least three other people stop and look down that close.

Worst room ever

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Only non-en-suite room I had the entire trip. Also, the door miraculously functioned without a knob on the outside. Interesting.

Stencil

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I love conversations.

Best room ever

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Everyone is so obsessed with their little electric kettles! Unfortunately, most places I stayed never cleaned them, so I wasn't too keen on drinking water with algae growing on the heating coils...

Edinburgh

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From atop Arthur's Seat.

Edinburgh

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B+B in York

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I was the only guest that night. The woman was incredibly nice, though I couldn't figure out what on earth a Charlie shop was... [Charlie = charity in Kaylee's world of not understanding thick accents]