Tower Bridge of London

 

Good perspective of the eye and what it is like

 

Hey kids... from the top of the Eye...

 

View towards big ben and parlament

 

View towards the Tower Bridge

 

View from the eye as we go up

The london eye is tall, about 130 meters. View would have been awesome had it not been raining so bad 

The London Eye

This was the only touristy thing i did today (13 pounds). If i had done all the tourist things that i talked by i'm sure it would have been at least 100 pounds (more than $200). London is expensive.

On the other hand, lunch at McDonalds only cost 3.79, which is about $8 CAD for a supersize meal which was reasonable i thought 

Big Ben

 

Horse Guards Building and Square

While i was taking this picture i was standing by the curb and got soaked by a passing car that hit and enormous puddle.... 

Trafalgar Sqaure

 

Piccadilly Square

Well it was raining... the whole time. Not nearly as fund as it would have been had it not been raining. 

Dirving across the moors

This reminded me alot of the "Plains of Rohan" in New Zealand 

a guy and his border collie in the moors

 

Train station.. old engligh style

When i saw this i felt like i was in an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine... 

Sheep...

 

Bernie again

This garge is also in the movie, in fact filming was scheduled there for Wed and Thursday this week. 

its me again...

 

More of Bernie...

Apparently these are the cars used in the show... 

Bernie in Goothland

This is the actual hotel/bar that is in the film. We went in a had a great pint of local IPA (one of the best I've ever had). 

Here i am

Finally made it to Goathland which is where they film heartbeat. This would actually have been a really cook place you you guys Cameron, Avery and Jaidyn. There is a running steam locomotive that you can take a ride on through the moors (picture of the station in a couple of pictures ahead). 

Jaidyn and Avery..this is for you

In our drive through the country we came across three students and their riding instructure our for a ride across the moors. 

More Countryside

 

and all roads lead to....

The local pub. In all the small towns we drove through the central feature was a local pub/inn.

In one of the small towns we were in, bernie went in to get directions and got excellent directions (the best that day) from this old english "gentlemen" who was totally wasted at 1pm in the afternoon sittiing in the pub drinking is beer.... 

The road we drove on...

 

English Country Side

It was scenes like this that allowed me to understand how JRR tolkien must have pictured middle earth and hobiton especially.