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| At Buckingham Palace |
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| Greencoat Place |
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| 11.13 am UK time |
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| Constituitional Hill behind us |
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| The Mall |
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| Queen Victoria |
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| We were hoping to see the changing of guards at Buckingham Palace but it is NOT a daily event. The horse guards coming down The Mall makes up for all the losses!!! |
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| Royal Mews |
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| View of Buckingham Palace from The Mall |
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| The Mall overlooking St James Park |
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| Green Park in the background |
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| Green Park |
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| Carlton House Terrace, built on Crown land between 1827 and 1832. Prior to this, the land was once occupied by Baron Carleton where a townhouse once stood in the early 1700's. A century later, Prince of Wales took over "Carlton Palace" before it was demolished and rebuilt as Carlton House Terrace |
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| Admiralty Citadel is a bomb proof battle ready bunker built between 1941 and 1942. The blue glassed wall on the left is The National Police Memorial |
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| The Horse Guard Parade at St James Park |
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| Dover House leading to St James Park |
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| The Old Admiralty Building |
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| The London Eye. Behind it is County Hall where the Aquarium is located. On the far left, Golden Jubilee Bridges in white flanks both sides of Hungerford Bridge. Hungerford Bridge is owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd and only allows rail passage whilst the Golden Jubilee Bridges are pedestrian bridges. In the foreground is Westminster Pier. |
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| Westminster Bridge |
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| Big Ben getting a facelift |
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| Byward Street |
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| All Hallows by The Tower is the oldest church in the City of London, founded in AD 675 as per the church's website. However recent research has raised doubts over such claims. Even though the church survived the Great Fire of London in 1666, it was badly damaged during the Blitz in World War II |
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| Tower Vaults is NOT part of the vaults associated with the Tower of London but is part of the Mazawattee warehouse built in 1864. |
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| Legge's Mount and Flint Tower @ Tower of London |
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| Tower Bridge |
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| Coppa Club's private igloos makes it possible to sit outside all year round, no matter the weather! |
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| Paul's |
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| May with the pier in the background. Thames river cruise is popular amongst tourists |
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| HMS Belfast with Cottons Center; retail, office and flats in the background |
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| City Hall, catchy in round onion icon |
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| Souvenir shops aplenty |
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| Byward Tower @ Tower of London |
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| Lifebouy aplenty |
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| Photo bombs aplenty |
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| Garbage bins aplenty |
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| Traitor's gate, the medieval prison entrance to the tower on the far left. White tower, standing tall, off right is the oldest part of the Tower of London dating back 1075 to 1079 by William the Conqueror |
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| Closer view of Tower Bridge |
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| View of Tower of London from A100's pedestrian and cycle path |
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| International House at St Katherine's Dock in brown building |
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| Tower of London, viewed from A100 |
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| Speed limit 20 mph |
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| Riding on the Tower Bridge |
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| Made in UK |
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| Tough to take a family photo with so many tourists on foot |
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| Peanut at the other end of the bridge |
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| We arrived too late for Walrus Social's street market |
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| Imperial War Museum, entrance is free |
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| Friendly staff suggested we lock our bikes at the baby stroller area! |
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| Tea room at the museum |
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Imperial War Museum - exhibits
Hi, I'm trying to get in touch with Claudine Loh to talk about the Asian Cycling Network and some of the requests made for better road safety (https://issuu.com/waveslifestyle/docs/the_iskandarian_feb2018_web). Would you be able to share your email address or email me at asia at BIGRS dot org ?
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