Tag:England
This shot was taken many years ago – 1983 actually. It’s a scan of a slide. I took it from my college dorm window, looking west across the Exe Valley.
The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting line in hair
Across the heath.
This shop has all you could ever want and less, from Union Jacks to red phone boxes and plates painted with the face of the Queen or Bill Shakespeare and his houses. Teddy bears and tea cloths, coffee mugs and teapots, all manner of stuff, much of it made in China.
The London Eye is a cantilevered wheel having support on only one side unlike other observation wheels in other cities. The wheel has 64 spoke cables that work like the spokes of bicycle wheel, holding the rim tight to the spindle in the middle of the wheel.
The best images I’ve seen of London from the Eye have been taken soon after sunrise on a cold, crisp, cloudless, winter’s morning. Great if you happen to be local, a crap shoot if you’re a tourist.
The London Eye currently has EDF Energy as a sponsor. The EDF stands for Electricité de France, of course; just as 20% of the iconic London Buses are operated by Deutsche Bahn – the German railroad company.
