Michelle Ule, Author

History, Real Life and Faith

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Traveler’s Tales: A London Walk

London walk, unusual sights, American eye, Edith Clavell, Twinings Tea, British royalty, England, London eye, British phone booth, Trafalgar SquarePhotos from a 2013 London walk.

Some of these shot I thought funny, others quirky.

You tell me what you think!

The Trafalgar Square lion and the London Eye provided a taste of both merry and modern old/new England.

The last time we took a London walk, I photographed my daughter in a red phone booth talking on her cell phone.

Things have changed in four years. I laughed aloud when I saw this booth:

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Everywhere we turned on our London walk we saw references to famous people who have lived or visited the city.

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Or companies known the world over.

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We loved looking at all the different buildings on our London walk.

Just up Fleet Street from Twinings Tea, I saw this interesting duo–undoubtedly of a building that once houses wire services, newspapers or other news-worthy businesses.

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We happened to be there on the 96th anniversary of WWI nurse Edith Cavell‘s death. Shot by the Germans for helping soldiers escape Belgium to England, some thought her a spy.

The outcry at killing a woman was so huge, her death changed the opinion of many–to the negative–toward the Kaiser’s Germany.

Red poppies lay at the base of her statue.London walk, unusual sights, American eye, Edith Clavell, Twinings Tea, British royalty, England, London eye, British phone booth, Trafalgar Square

We saw signs of British royalty.

The Beefeater carrying a machine gun seemed very odd and a bit scary to me. It may have to do with my mental image of a Beefeater carrying a different and older type of weapon.
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I loved seeing the dragons all over town.

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We laughed at common food in the fish market!

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Notice how British schoolteachers keep track of their students while on field trips!

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We carried an umbrella on our London walk but we never got wet!

When our feet ached, we climbed onto the top of a red double-decker bus and watched the London scenery pass.

A London walk is great spot way to see the city.

 

 

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  2. Andrew Budek-Schmeisserb says

    Nice gift for Thanksgiving – thanks!

    Edith Cavell’s character seemed, from all accounts, to be so quintessentially English. She was truly part of that ‘gentle, obsolescent breed of heroes’ that this green and pleasant land cultivates. Thank you for mentioning her, Michelle.

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    • Michelle Ule says

      Interesting how one death can change the tide of events. People around the world were so scandalized by her death, all sides did not execute another female spy for two years. Mata Hari was the next one killed for her war spying.

      Was Cavell a spy? Shouldn’t a nurse have tried to help soldier escape out of occupied Belgium?

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