{"id":756,"date":"2015-07-24T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phenweb.wordpress.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:49:46","slug":"londons-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/londons-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great day on Wednesday doing a river dinner cruise on the Thames and seeing London&#8217;s sights. This was all to celebrate my daughter&#8217;s 21st birthday &#8211; where did those year&#8217;s go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This trip allowed a wonderful perspective on the cityscape. I&#8217;ve included some photos below, but it also allows me a link back to books. The covers on my <em>Demise<\/em> series of spy thrillers: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/the-books-2\/an-agents-demise\/\">An Agent&#8217;s Demise<\/a>, An Agent&#8217;s Rise<\/em> and, in production, <a href=\"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/books\/an-agents-prize\/\"><em>An An Agent&#8217;s Prize<\/em>,<\/a> use one of the buildings. We had an excellent view of the HQ of the Secret Intelligence Service from the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some wonderful sights to be seen on a lovely evening after the weather cleared<\/p>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-2344 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-2344 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-2344\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p1020152-1.jpg\" 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This was all to celebrate my daughter&#8217;s 21st birthday &#8211; where did those year&#8217;s go? This trip allowed a wonderful perspective on the cityscape. I&#8217;ve included some photos below, but it also allows me a link back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,36,37,110,197,334,443,537,548,651,731,767,824],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-blogs","tag-an-agents-demise","tag-an-agents-prize","tag-an-agents-rise","tag-canary-wharf","tag-dinner-cruise-on-the-thames","tag-hms-belfast","tag-london","tag-parliament","tag-philip-g-henley","tag-secret-intelligence-service","tag-thames","tag-tower-bridge","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}