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  Priscilla Queen of the Desert – London – West End As a movie Priscilla became a cult classic in Australia and the UK. I’m not sure why, but Australians have this thing about ritzy performances in the roughest places – like ballroom dancing in a barn, or this documentary that I once saw of [...]

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  Priscilla; Queen of the Desert – Palace Theater – London After the disaster with the Visa that didn’t work, our unbelievably generous relatives sprung for theater tickets for what they suggested “Mick needs to give a chance as its really quite good.” Looks like the tickets were 65 pounds apiece which put us on [...]

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  P1040854, originally uploaded by Mic2006. We were walking by the front of the National Gallery and this madman – unmoving until Maggie passed by, did this. Well aside from the shock and obligation of dropping a pound in the box, our visit to the National Gallery was amazing. In London, most museums and galleries [...]

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Don’t Mess with the Queen In addition to the regular guards foot soldiers outside Buckingham Palace, the uninvited guest would be dealing with this. I’m not sure exactly what he’s carrying but it brings to mind a less security conscious time when I was sent on an exercise during a potential officer course (Sandhurst). My [...]

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Life Guards – London No visit to London is complete without some pomp and ceremony. I took this picture outside the building known as “Horse Guards”. These fellows in red are the life Guards – not the swimming kind (their cuirasses would drag them down). As one tourist in the know explained, “They stand there [...]

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  All we had left! When you’re real tired and you need a shower, some food and a good sleep you really look forward to your hotel. Maggie and I had traveled some distance out of London by tube to a suburb called Kenton. Not a bad place I suppose and the Premier Inn that [...]

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    Maggie and the Ferrari In case you are wondering where I’ve been for the last week it has been in the UK visiting Maggie’s relatives. I took this picture in downtown London somewhere around Lester Square. Second hand a Ferrari is worth somewhere between $150,000 (Canadian) and $250,000. Over the last decade sales [...]

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