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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:05 PM
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Pix of the London Fog: Beautiful
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:08 PM
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1. As a Londoner, I can happily confirm that!
It's as cold as **** in the capital but truly, breathtakingly beautiful right now. The fog gives everything and eerie, timeless quality. Street noise is dulled. It's oddly comforting.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:09 PM
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3. No doubt it helps that neither of us
is stuck at Heathrow :D. The photos are beautiful.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:11 PM
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4. Absolutely!
Edited on Thu Dec-21-06 07:11 PM by Taxloss
Although, judging from that amazing last picture, if you're stuck ABOVE Heathrow the view makes it worthwhile! :wow:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:33 PM
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7. I'd be preoccupied with
landing in that fog. From my distance it's gorgeous.:D We have a lot of fog here in the hilly areas around rivers but not near our airports.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:26 PM
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6. My kid got stuck there...
for 2 DAYS!!! Then the airline demanded that anyone who wasn't re-booked or whose re-book had been cancelled VACATE THE AIRPORT. WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 08:12 PM
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14. I got out just before things went to hell at Heathrow.
The fog on the way down to Heathrow on the coach was amazing, though. Can't say I remember what it looked like from above, as I was in deep sleep at that point, working off the brain fog from the previous evening's christmas party.
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Hav Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:08 PM
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2. .
The world is beautiful indeed.
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:15 PM
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5. My daughter just moved to England last week so these photos...
Edited on Thu Dec-21-06 07:15 PM by Missy M
were great for me. Thanks!
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:39 PM
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8. Great pictures. I want to go back to the British Isles, but the US dollar against the
pound is killing me!
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livvy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:41 PM
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9. Ohhhh.. I really like #4 and #6. So pretty! n/t
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:43 PM
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10. Not to detract from the asthetic
and it's probably just me but that last shot, and this abnormal winter, really makes me think of the film Day After Tomorrow.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 08:16 PM
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15. As I was saying in another thread, fog in London in winter is normal.
BUT that said, it has been unseasonably warm until last week, and there was a tornado last week as well - THAT is abnormal!
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:46 PM
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11. break out the Charles Dickens
looks like what he was describing in "A Christmas Carol" (well, sans some coal smog).

We get our share of fog here in "sunny" California. A Belgian friend nearly froze to death while visiting us one July... the Bay Area fog rolled in and he was not ready for it. And the valleys get tule fog- otherwise known as ground fog... and the multi-car pile ups that ensue.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 07:49 PM
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12. OOkie and spooky.. Here's a fog pic I love
Edited on Thu Dec-21-06 07:56 PM by SoCalDem


and another

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ninkasi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 08:04 PM
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13. The pictures are so beautiful
Thank you for posting these. I hope everybody trapped by the fog stays safe.
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