1. Introduction
In 2000, just as the Olympic Games were finishing in Australia, I made a visit to the United Kingdom, travelling around London, England and Cornwall. While I had put some of the Paris photos on-line (live from the Eurostar train), I hadn't done anything with the others. In June 2000 I was cleaning out old backup CD-ROMs, and found the photos. So here are the best of them. As with previous travel reports, and as it says in my book, Net Traveller, this is a technical travelogue.
London
![London Eye reflected](../../images/travel/uk/small/tmg03.jpg)
London Eye reflected
One tourist attraction visible from much of London is the London Eye. A Ferris wheel in a city should look out of place, but the London Eye looks like it belongs. I photographed the eye reflected in a window near Waterloo International Station, where the Eurostar train leaves for Paris.
Cornwall
![St Michael's Mount](../../images/travel/uk/small/smm04.jpg)
St Michael's Mount
St Michael's Mount in Cornwall is the twin of Mont Saint Michel in Normandy. Like its namesake it is small rocky island a few kilometers off shore. The chapel is from the 15th-century. You can walk to it along a stone road at low tide.
Stonehenge
![Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain](../../images/travel/uk/small/chr5.jpg)
Stonehenge
Stonehenge looks a lot smaller in reality than in photos. It is 7.5 m high, which I guess is big if you had to drag the stones there.
People
Along the way I visited the then Director of the UK Cabinet Office Central IT Unit, who now heads its Australian equvalent: the Australian Government Information Management Office. Also I gave a seminar at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, fulfilling a long standing promise to the Director). One person I didn't get to visit, or on a subsequent trip, is Bill Thompson, in Cambridge.