Boat Tour on the Thames

Near the London Eye, the world's largest ferris wheel. It stops only to let out passengers on the bottom and let new ones on and still manages to take 45 minutes to go around once. Also, unlike the Dome and the Bridge, the only Millennium project in London that actually works at this time (9 or 21 months past the start of the millennium, depending on when you count from).

We took a boat trip down the Thames to Greenwich; at left is St. Paul's Cathedral.

The New Globe Theatre was visible to the right (amid many warehouses turned into extremely expensive riverfront luxury apartments). It looks just like the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California. I guess that's the point.

The London Tower: the most intact castle-like building we saw this trip. (We walked around the outside briefly later on, but this was the best picture.)

Rounding out our tour of Famous London Sites Visible on an Hour Boat Tour, the Tower Bridge. Unfortunately, when we went by later on the top part was closed, so we couldn't walk across. (We were also down to our last few pence.)

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