Since the London Eye, although slightly annoying with the Coca-Cola advertising, is regarded to be one of the top sights of London, I had decided to spend the money for a ride. I mean, it's Europe's biggest Ferris wheel, and the view of London from up there was supposed to be great.
We arrived a bit earlier, so we still had time to go to the "4D Experience". That turned out to be a short film (4 minutes, according to Wikipedia) about the London Eye and London in general in 4D - 3D plus a bit of water. Not the most exciting event ever, but it was included in the ticket, which wasn't exactly cheap. Therefore, Christian was like, "we won't allow a part of our ticket to go to waste!" Good point.
Afterwards, we went straightaway to the queue for the London Eye. According to the ticket, you are required to start queuing 30 minutes before your booked slot. Unless you have a fast track ticket, which of course we didn't have - would have been even more expensive.
However, this way, we had lots of time to take pictures of the London Eye from all possible distances and angles.
By the way, there were lots of people behind us, although I had bought tickets for the last slot, 21:30. If you're wondering: getting tickets for the latest slot was intentional. There would have been tickets for the same price from as early as 17:30 (before that time, tickets would have been more expensive - they seem to use every way they can think of to make more money). But I wanted to see London at night anyway so I decided for a time that was for sure after sunset. As you can see from the pictures taken while queuing, it got dark at that time.
According to my camera, the first picture taken from the capsule was taken at 21:33. So the estimated queuing time of 30 minutes was pretty accurate.
So, here are the best pictures my camera was capable of taking at night. I think, it looked even better when seeing it for real.
Yeah, too many pictures, I know, but it was just so beautiful...!
P.S. Solution from the announcement post: that was shortly before landing at Stansted. I couldn't take a picture of flying over London, which was way brighter, because they hadn't turned off the lights in the plane by then. As I said, Stansted is not really London. ;-)
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