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A rambling miscellany of comments and realtime cameraphone photos.
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- Snap !
- Health and safety me arse...
- Regents Street lights
- Rocket science museum london
- Mmm creme eggs (taken outside Custom House Cork)
- 06 C 9535
- Unloading in Heathrow
- Heathrow security
- Natural History Museum London
- Canary Wharf
- Iguandon
- Into the Thames on a duck
- The London Eye in the rain
- Smollenskys in London - good customer service
- Apollo 10 capsule
- How to get yourself through a police checkpoint
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Interesting facts about London Eye:
ReplyDeleteIt took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people from five countries to make the London Eye a reality.
The London Eye welcomes an average of 3.5 million customers every year. You would need 6,680 fully booked British Airways Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets to move that number of fliers!
The London Eye can carry 800 passengers per revolution - equivalent to 11 London red doubled-decker buses.
Each of the 32 capsules weighs 10 tonnes. To put that figure into perspective, it's the same weight as 1,052,631 pound coins or 5 Limousine London vehicles!
The total weight of the wheel and capsules is 2,100 tonnes - or as much as 1,272 London black cabs!