A short ride on the Emirates Air Line

 I stayed at Stuart and Deirdre's house last night and commuted into London this morning with Matthew, who was on his last day of work experience with a firm of Chartered Surveyors. I nipped outside at London Bridge to take this shot of "the Shard", which, for the time being, is the tallest building in Europe. The buildings inauguration ceremony took place last night.


Matthew got off the tube at Canary Wharf, and I carried on to Stratford. I had a wander around the recently openedshopping centre:-



Wenlock and Mandeville, the Olympic mascots:-

 The Olympic park was sealed off like a prison camp, with soldiers guarding the entrances. I went up to the top floor of John Lewis which had a viewing area looking out over the site. This is one of the landmark buildings, Anish Kapoor's "Orbit Tower" - resembling a giant helter skelter:-

 The main Olympic stadium:-

 I took a short tube journey to the Emirates Airline, which opened earlier this week, and rode over the Thames to the Millenium Dome:-

 I walked down the length of the Greenwich Peninsula, through the millenium village:-

 I took a look at the Cutty Sark, for the first time since the fire:-

 I crossed back under the Thames to the Isle of Dogs via the Greenwich pedestrian tunnel, then took the Docklands Light Railway back to South London:-