Hover Captions—and, as a little treat for you at the bottom of this page—the Haiku
Dover [Return to Photos]
1:1 - Joe in front of the Officers' New Barracks.
1:2 - Ruth and Joe at Dover Castle, Kent.
1:3 - Dover Castle protects England's coastline closest to continental Europe.
1:4 - White cliffs of Dover & port (facing the French coast).
2:1 - Ruth & Misun at the Vice-Admiral Ramsay lookout.
2:2 - Ruth & Joe at the 1st century Roman lighthouse.
2:3 - Ruth and Misun at the Pharos lighthouse, which the Romans built 950 years before the first castle of Dover.
2:4 - The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) ruins rise adjacent to the Church of St. Mary-in-Castro, circa 1000, the finest late-Saxon building standing in southeast England.
Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace [Return to Photos]
1:1 - Identify regiments: plume, buttons, tunic, head wear.
1:2 - Mounted Regiments change the Queen’s Life Guard. A Long Guard (17 men) is mounted when The Queen is resident in London, otherwise a Short Guard (12 men) is mounted.
1:3 - Ceremony, daily at 11.00 a.m. (10.00 a.m. Sundays).
1:4 - We arrived about 10:20 a.m. and got a great view.
Around London [Return to Photos]
1:1 - Rosetta Stone at the British Museum.
1:2 - Yeomen Warder at the Tower of London with Joe.
1:3 - Tower of London, our last stop on Joe's 60th birthday.
1:4 - Ruth by the Tower Bridge at the Tower of London.
Coulsdon [Return to Photos]
1:1 - The beautiful 800 year old St. Margaret's Church in Chipstead, Surrey; evening rays warm flintwork walling and stone trimmings—quoins, window mullions, tracery, window surrounds, plinths, and parapets.
1:2 - One of Misun's awesome meals we enjoyed.
1:3 - Our host family: Jae, Seok, Woohee; Jiyoung, Misun.
1:4 - Joe and Ruth & the Lee family celebrate Joe's birthday.
A Japanese-style poem: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and then 5 syllables
"A tiny little
surprise at the end of our
webpage of London."
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