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SEPTEMBER 2004 : BRITAIN, FINLAND and GERMANY


The cat who made sleeping an art form

Monty, purveyor of fur balls since 1993, resplendant in his Dilton Arse flower pot

Get those bloody tourists out the way so I can take me photo!


London: the Wobbly Footbridge over the Thames, with some old church in the background

Who chucked that tomato?

London: standing among the Groundlings watching Romeo and Juliet at the reconstituted Globe Theatre

Wot no Morris Dancers?

Nunney festival, Wiltshire - a bit o' traditional British village life. You can just make out the crappy little 14th century castle at the back...

Knotted hankies mercifully not pictured

Lyme Regis : what British summer would be complete without a wet 'n' windy visit to the seaside?

5 points for identifying it as a Panzerkampfwagen V

Nerd heaven at Bovington Camp Tank Museum: the Freudian symbolism is poking you in the eye!

You want tomatoes, we've got tomatoes, now what's yer problem!

Helsinki market: cockney banter Finland style

Three Hail Marys and your mother

Helsinki's Lutheran Cathedral (Martin was out when we called)

Just bloody 'ouses, that's all!

Jugendstil houses in Helsinki. Or was that Art Deco? Er...

An eyeful o' shite

A bloke with a bird on his head ;-)

Man of Misidentification!

The wonderfully attired Mr.Radloff on Suomenlinna Island, Helsinki Bay

More Freudian symbolism....

Fire!

Look out, he's gone all arty again...

No, not a Rothko painting, it's actually the corner of a nice old Swedish building on Suomenlinna Island

Suomenlinna Island again

The Vikings are coming! Get that submarine into the water!

Could be bloody anywhere, and it probably is!

Our hotel. Not really, it's just one of them open air ethnographic museum thingies, that's all

How many days has he worn that old rugby shirt?

No, the camera was level - it's the whacky buildings that are wonky. Building standards in the town of Porvoo were obviously a bit lax in the past...

You've stolen our souls!

Some innocent bystanders get caught in the shooting in Porvoo's Old Town

Don't try this at home, kids

Sundays in Porvoo were hard to get through...

You must've taken a wrong turn at Basingstoke, dear!

Rovaniemi's tacky Santa Park helpfully pointing out our location. Thanks.

Don't look into the sun, you fool!

The midnight sun - at 10pm... ;-)

Jingle Bells, Batman smells...

Santa's house at the Arctic Circle. No, really, I saw him.

Bring back the GDR!

On to Berlin, and one of the bits that isn't either covered in scaffolding or totally filthy

Modern art - it's crap!

A bizzare and somewhat grotesque installation in Berlin's Jewish Museum - you are invited to step on these loudly clanging metal faces...

Go Mr.Owens!

The home of the 1936 Olympic Games, now with most of the Nazi bits toned down

Where are the matches?!!

The Reichstag complete with new glass dome where visitors can throw rubbish onto their MPs below

What do you want to be when you grow up?

In Potsdam - a kind of small tree thingy

Yeah, what he said

Potsdam - a far cry from the dirty depressing Berlin suburbs...

Man of Misidentification!

Sundays in Berlin were hard to get through...

Moo!

And back to London, where it's getting noticeably cleaner with bits like this stuff in Paternoster Square

Pretentious git!

Hampton Court, of Henry VIII fame, and we end our little photographic peregrination.

All images © 2008 Andy Lightfoot: no unauthorised reproduction without the author's prior consent. Enquires to that effect should be directed here.

01/2010 : Ujina, Hiroshima
01/2010 : Recent Pictures
09/2009 : Spain
05/2009 : Kyoto, Otsu and Shiga, Japan
03/2009 : Hokkaido, Japan
09/2008 : Britain and France
04/2008 : Chubu, Japan
10/2007 : France
03/2007 : Kyushu, Japan
10/2006 : Norway
08/2006 : Kansai, Japan
03/2006 : Australia
09/2005 : Czech Republic
08/2005 : Tokyo, Japan
03/2005 : Australia
01/2005 : Hiroshima and Kyoto, Japan
09/2004 : Britain, Finland and Germany
03/2004 : New Zealand
09/2003 : France and Switzerland
03/2003 : New Zealand
12/2002 : Hiroshima, Japan, Denmark and Sweden

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