Hibblen Radio - Black And White Gallery

The marriage may not have worked out, but there were plenty of good memories, including our honeymoon in March and April of 2000. I debated for a while whether it was too weird to leave up photos from a failed marriage, deciding that since I like the photos a lot and since Susan and I are still decent friends to keep them here. We traveled to London, then Amsterdam for a nearly two-week honeymoon. You can view a full-size image by clicking on a thumbnail below. Note that images are large and may take time to download on slower connections.


Standing in front of London's Tower Bridge. Because it was rainy and cold our entire time there, we often had tourist attractions practically to ourselves.	To get a better overview of the city we did the touristy thing of taking one of London's double-decker tour buses. From behind, here was our tour guide.


Being a big fan of rail travel, I was pleased to see how heavily Europe uses trains. Here is London's Metropolitan Railway Station.	While I liked London's subway system, finding it convenient and easy to use, we did encounter several delays and cancelled trains.	The busy, crowded, noisy streets of London reminded me a lot of being in New York. We took regular buses a few times, but found them confusing as hell.


Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park. Anyone is welcome to speak and many, like this man, seem to work at inflaming their crowds.	While others hold more scholarly discussions. For more than a century Speaker's Corner has been a place to debate practically any topic imaginable.	A very visible police presence kept the often-heated debates from getting physical. Here Susan walks behind two of London's officers.


We got up early to catch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace only to be disappointed, finding that it had been rained out.	Posing in front of Big Ben from inside a car on the London Eye, a sort of ferris wheel-type device that provided a good view of London.	Susan eats a bag of chips at this beautiful train station in Brussels, Belgium while waiting to transfer trains to get to Amsterdam.


An image from the train while passing through a city somewhere between Brussels and Amsterdam.	The view of Amsterdam sticking my head out the bedroom window at our bed and breakfast.	I was impressed that the bicycle is a leading form of transportation there. Bikes were everywhere.


A woman rides through the narrow streets of Amsterdam.	Even the mail carriers are on bicycles.	I saw several artists like this man painting scenes on the streets.


Every day long lines wait to visit the Anne Frank House where she and her family lived and were captured by the Germans.	Of course Amsterdam is well known for its coffee shops. Here's a rather unique one housed on a boat.	Even entire families get around by bike. It was nice to see cars having to share the roads equally with bikes and streetcars.