Guinness Lake

This is really Lough Tay, but it was a wedding gift from "Mr. Guinness" to "Mrs. Guinness" a long time ago, and the heirs still live there. The land all around it has since been protected by Ireland, so nothing can ever be built around it.



It's kind of hard to see, but there's a house down there, and if you see little dots there were bunch of deer down there, too. The tour guide said a while ago they had an auction, and he went with his wife and bought a butter dish. Damien- the tour guide- said his Ford Escort stood out a little among all the BMWs and Rolls Royces.

Wicklow Mountains -- Glendalough

The tour guide said lots of movies are filmed here. The director of Excalibur lives nearby and the scene with the sword in the lake was filmed in this lake pictured here. Braveheart was also made nearby, a new movie called Finding Julie or Julia or something like that, the new Lassie movies, the upcoming King Henry movie, and Disney's version of Camelot or something like that, too, and others.

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin was suprisingly ugly, so I didn't take many pictures of it. The church window is the Tourism Center; it's in an old converted Church. The next posts down have pretty pictures of Ireland- outside the city. I haven't posted the Wicklow Mts. pics yet, but will upload them later.

Glendalough (Glen of the Two Lakes)

These are taken at the monastic site founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. The completely stone building is St. Kevin's Church of the Kitchen, and Vikings couldn't burn it since it was all stone. The picture of the door is the inside of the church. The single tower isn't the same one on the Church, and had the door 15 feet of the ground. People thought it was so Vikings couldn't enter- but they could have just built a ladder. It was really because the grass would grow up so tall, so they made the first floor up 15 feet, and used the area underneath for storage, even if it was grassy. Some of the grave markers had dates all the way back to the 15th century, and the high cross pictured was from the 9th century.

South Coast

This was on the way to the Wicklow Mountains. We stopped here, it was across from a fishing village called Howth.

More Britain at War Experience

This is a video from the Air Strike room. It's really dark, and I think the videos show up here even darker than they are; it's mostly sound, with some areas are lit.

221b Baker Street

Dr. Watson's desk, Sherlock's bed, and the fireplace.

More Britain at War Experience

I put up a couple more photos from this, since I was in a hurry last time. There was a place to wear uniforms for pictures, and I put the pic of Mom inthe flightsuit up; there are more of us wearing hats and helmets. The gasmasks wear really heavy- the one I have on the the pic below was heavy on the side with t e filter, metal inside, and I had to tilt my head the other way to hold it straight.

Above Ireland

Clouds from the Plane

England from the Air

Ravens

There's a picture of them below, and here's a video of the giant Ravens at the Tower of London. Six live there, and now their wings are clipped so they can't leave. There's a legend that if the ravens ever left the tower would fall. These birds were HUGE.

Photos from the Air

These pictures were taken inside the airplane. I think it was on my flight from Italy to London, or maybe Germnay to Italy. The mountains are the Swiss Alps. I have more pictures I took on our flight today from London to Dublin, but haven't transfered my camera pics yet. So, later I'll have mmore shots from the sky; over the water, England and Ireland fro the air, and clouds.

Air Raid Shelter

This video is really dark, but is from inside an air raid shelter at the Britain at War Experience in London.

Pygmy monkey!

This is one of my favorite monkey videos. It's some kind of Pygmy monkey, and a Golden Tamarin who gets jealous, and shows off.

A Monkey Video from the London Zoo

This is called a White-Faced Saki Monkey.

HMS Belfast

My camera battery died here, too. We went down to the engine rooms, but I wasn't able to get any pictures there. Some things here were hard to get pictures of, becasue they were behind a pretty reflective plexi-glass; mainly documents and personal items- books, journals, etc.