Not a Single Picture of Big Ben!
…because, as every good tourist knows, Big Ben is the bell inside the Great Clock Tower.
(I’m a good tourist in the sense that I know that, and knew it prior to this trip. I’m a bad tourist in the sense that I always think of Big Ben, in my head, as the tower. And every time I do, I tell myself, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is ‘never pinch the bearskin of a Coldstream Guard’ - but only slightly less well known is this: ‘Never say you saw Big Ben to an Englishman, because your ignorance would be hilarious.’ Ha ha ha…” and so forth.)
And this I must say: In spite of all the pictures I have seen in my life of Westminster Palace and the Great Clock Tower, it was far more beautiful than I imagined. It was stunning. I wish that my pictures could do it justice - but since I’ve never seen a shot that did, I have no pretensions that these will!
So, here are my pictures not of Big Ben.
