A Walk Through London

Just a few pics taken during my walk from Westminster to the Globe Theater!

Tower Bridge!

Below Tower Bridge

I don't know what this place is, but I found it across from the Themes, and I like it. 

And it has a cool fountain.

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A recreation of the ship formerly belonging to Sir Francis Drake.

A Few Scenes of the English Countryside

Three words: Sheep, sheep, and sheep. 

Most of these pictures were taken in the Cotswold region, near-ish to Chipping Camden. Beautiful, pastoral area. Also, lots of cute sheep and ponies. 

I'm in England!

At long last, my pilgrimage to the birthplace of steampunk and the Industrial Revolution has begun! I arrived in Winchester yesterday afternoon bedraggled, jet-lagged, and just about falling over in exhaustion.

Doesn't it look like an airship should to come floating out the top?

My journey began with a joyous escape sorrowful goodbye as I graduated high school. Nothing much out of the ordinary about that event, although the venue, I think is somewhat worthy of mention.
Miller Park is a massive building in a neo-industrial style with such fancy details as a retractable roof. Sounds like a perfect airship hangar, no? Sorry, but it's actually just a pretty normal-looking stadium that houses a pretty mediocre baseball team, so it only gets a mention here.

After all, I had places to be, so I walked out looking a bit like this:

Anyway, onto the interesting crap: GOING TO ENGLAND!!!1!1!
(Proceeded by that excruciating butt-marathon known as eight hours on a plane.) At the least the airport in Madrid where I had a layover looked pretty cool. I can't get any pictures of that up right now, but I will, I promise. In fact, if I forget, reach through the internets, slap me, and remind me to add them.

L's childhood home. Sadly, fictional.

But I do have pictures of Winchester! You see, my love of this town goes even before I knew what steampunk was, all the way back into the Anime Phase. And during that phase, my favorite anime character was the super-awesome and exceedingly cute detective L. And his hometown was Winchester. Bad news, I didn't see any of my favorite characters walking around town, but I did find plenty of other awesomeness. Without further ado, the gallery!

A few pictures of mainly the cathedral and High Street:

Keep an eye out for updates; I've got more pictures, but it's tricky to get them all sorted out on the go.

Steampunk Hotel

I recently received an email from my sister entailing her adventures in the world of grad school tours, which included several pictures detailing the interior design of the Commons Hotel in Minneapolis. This was followed by a few admonishments to get off my arse and blog them already, and I've finally decided to stop procrastinating and do so now. These photos are a bit grainy, I'm afraid, having been shot with an iPod camera, but there are a few better ones on the hotel's website.
 

A small sort of library. Libraries... *drool*

Epic fireplace!

It's a balloon chiar! WANT!

A tin ceiling in the lobby. n_n  I love little architectural details like that.