The Tower Bridge Walk.

JV managed to come to London finally to the surprise of everybody, he has been promising me a trip for the past one year and we were all eagerly waiting to see him. He did manage to screw up our plans for the day by coming in the afternoon as opposed to noon he was supposed to take the noon train from Reading. Since he was late Ram, Maggi and yours truly decided to take the Tower Bridge Walk i.e. the walk from London Bridge to the Tower Bridge. This walk is named appropriately the Queens walk and it gives you the best views of the Tower Bridge, London Bridge and the Mayors office. There are usually theme shows conducted on this walk during summer months.

As always please do click on the images to see a high resolution image.

As I was walking towards canary wharf to meet Ram I took this photo of the various boat houses the lighting was perfect and felt that this photo was going to come out great and indeed it came out in a great way. The houses on the far side is where yours truly resides in London J

That is the London Bridge for you which is famous for the Rhyme “London Bridge is falling down … falling down … falling down”, lot of people relate the Tower Bridge to this rhyme but the rhyme refers to this bridge. There are a few bridges across the Thames and I will post photos of a few of them in due time. The boat you see there is a cruise boat and they do lot of these on the Thames, they also have dinner cruises which people are told are very good.

The Tower Bridge can open in the middle to allow for boats with high masts to pass through them, on my wish list is a walk to the top of the towers they are part of the London attractions.

Yours truly flanked by the Towers of the Bridge J

This is the London Mayors office. It is called the City Hall. You can read about it here.

A wide angle shot of the Tower Bridge from the entrance.

Here for your viewing pleasure my friends left to right – Ram, Maggi and JV. Maggi manages to close her eyes when the shutter opens for a shot. I am still perplexed how she can manage it since when I see her through the viewfinder I see her with her high open but in that fraction of the second the shutter opens she closes her eyes!!!

This is the Gopuram of the Murugan temple in East Ham two year back when I had just come into London this temple was a small one inside house and it is a pleasure going to this temple now. It is very similar to a temple in India and the gurukal people are from Tamilnadu and it gives a nice touch to the temple ambience. The only issue which I find with this temple is the fact that at sharp 1900 Hrs in the evening they close all the deities and start preparing for the abisheghams and they pull the screen only at 2000 Hrs. Lot of times I have been to the temple at 1915 to pray to the screens J I don’t stay back till 200 hrs as it is not all that safe walking back to the East Ham station after dark.

This is the rear side of the temple. The temple has ample parking space for the devotees.

This is Swami a friend I picked at Chennai Dosa as we shared the same table. He works for the BBC Tamil Channel and quite a jovial and nice person to move along with. This is the second friend we have got into the LondonJyothi from Chennai Dosa. First it was Sridhar but unfortunately (Fortunate for him maybe) he has left for the US.