A few days in the Capital and then travelling in Western Virginia,
Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Boston Massachusetts and
finishing in New York, New York.
The Capitol
WWll memorial
Georgetown
Washington harbour
Washington and Jefferson memorial
Jefferson memorial - road side
Jefferson memorial - lake side
The man himself
Washington railway station. Wonderfully decorated interior
Does it remind you of Woking?
Railway station with tour trollies
Wasington monument and the Christmas tree
Protesters outside the White House - with marksmen on the roof
The other side
Pat wearing badge 'I've been to the White House'
What you read on the board is what you get
Eurcharist - al fresco
The bag contained goodies and some gospel
Norfolk Gardens
Above the mermaid of Norfolk and our lovely American friends
and hosts.
Below ships in harbour at Norfolk - the largest naval station in the
world.
Big as they are I suppose they can still sink.
Philadelphia - Independence Hall. Mr Washington (General George) stands outside
Blue line marks original Presidents 'mansion'
Liberty bell
Chinatown
oldest residential street in the States
Muslim festive gathering - with Pat sketching
Cruiser Olympia launched 1892. Sailed to Baltic in 1918 - sable rattling
against Communism. Brought Unknown Soldier back from France in the same
year.
Submarine Becuda launched 1942 - roughly same length as Olympia.
Korea War Memorial
City Hall
Roman Catholic cathedral
Philadelphia, the murder capital of America - 200 police are mounted on bikes.
Shenendoah National Park- fogged in, saw nothing
Luray cavern - stunning
Montecello - Jefferson's pad
Boston State House with Boston bridge opposite
The original Cheers
The legendary Mother Duck
George again - he gets everwhere - and Boston harbour with some tale of tea
Indoor market- with about 60 food stalls of great variety
He was here
More old people
US Constitution - oldest commissioned warship
Kill Devils Hills - Wright brothers test ground. Stones mark time of first powered flights. Dec 17, 1903.
1st flight 120 feet in 12 seconds. 4th and final flight - 59 seconds, 852 feet.
Broadway - Pat helps to turn it into a pedestrian precinct
Brooklyn bridge
On top of the 'rock' - the Rockerfeller Building
a better view than from the Empire State - looking the other way; Central Park
Zoom into a Pier on the Hudson - complete with carrier and Concorde. And Radio city opposite the Rock
The Rockerfeller Building and the Chrysler Building
The Empire State and the Flat Iron
Ellis Island - landing ground for immigrant millions. New York is across the water
Now there is a real icon - a gift from the French
The Statue of Liberty is rather large. The models are life size replicas
of the not very feminine face.
Her nose is 4'6" long. From the ground to the tip of the torch is
305' and the whole rests on a concrete foundation weighing 54 million
tons.
The original lamp and the lift shaft
Ground Zero with the tree that saved St Paul's
The New York skyline
- from ground level and higher up. The missing twin towers were to the left of the darker building roughly
in the centre of this pic. The Empire State - once more the tallest building
in New York - took 14 months to build. The replacement for the twin towers
is scheduled to be something closer to 14 years. They will be over 200 floors
high and, so they say, plane proof. Perhaps it is what is referred to as
having ones head in the clouds.
St John the Divine which was (or is?) the sixth largest cathedral in the
world. Brownie point for those who can name numnbers 2,3,4 and 5, in the
correct order.
St Patrick's Cathedral
Times Square Church in its theatrical setting. It has a congregation
of 8000 speaking over 100 tongues.
New York at night from across the Hudson River where we were staying in
Jersey City. The tall building is the Empire State.
