After spending the morning at the HMS Belfast, we walked along the river to the Millennium footbridge and visited St Paul's cathedral.
This was an old church along the river front. I liked the contrasting view of old and new architecture.
St Pauls in the distance.
Millennium bridge. Carson thought it was cool to see the bridge that was collapsed by the Deatheaters in Harry Potter.
Its so easy to see from far way. As you get closer, it just gets bigger and bigger!
The people on the steps give you an idea of the scale of the building. And so does Carson standing by a front pillar (below).
Looking up at the top of the inner dome from the floor of the sanctuary. We didn't get to spend nearly as much time as I wanted because we had a timed entry for the Eye and needed to walk further down the river. We did listen to our audioguides a bit to get an idea of some of the church's history.
Climbing the 500+ stairs to the tippy top of the dome.
City view from the roof at the base of the dome.
Millennium bridge view
The last part of the climb is all metal stairs and takes you between the inner dome (that you can see from the sanctuary) and the outer roof dome.
The entry to the church from the top of the dome. (Looking down at the same point I took the picture of the facade from)
You can see the Eye in the distance. We decided it would be faster to walk than to try to catch the tube because neither stop was close to where we wanted to be. I might have been wrong about this, but it was an energetic walk to make our entry time.
David, Delaney and Antonio had skipped St Pauls and met us at the Eye. Fortunately the line was huge and they were not paying any attention to when people's entry was, so our 15 min delay from jogging along the river was was not a problem.
Having been on the Eye before, David and I just chilled and waited for the others to get back down.
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