{"id":1594,"date":"2013-09-22T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urban.dividiva.nl\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2024-05-27T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T13:27:54","slug":"london-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/london-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"View from the London Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1071\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/London-Eye_2.jpg\" alt=\"The London Eye view over London\" class=\"wp-image-1596\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1071\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/London-Eye-Big-Ben.jpg\" alt=\"Big Ben and Houses of Parliament from The London Eye\" class=\"wp-image-1597\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1189\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/London-Eye-South-Bank.jpg\" alt=\"South Bank from the London Eye\" class=\"wp-image-1595\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/London-Eye-Shadow.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow of the London Eye wheel\" class=\"wp-image-1598\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1071\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/London-Eye.jpg\" alt=\"London Eye\" class=\"wp-image-1599\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The little girl next to me asking her mother &#8216;are we going to fall into the water?&#8217; didn&#8217;t help, but the view from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londoneye.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Eye<\/a> was quite amazing nonetheless.\u00a0Apparently it&#8217;s all about <a title=\"The View from the Shard\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/view-from-the-shard\/\">conquering my fear of heights<\/a> lately, so when I got invited to visit the London Eye I found myself looking down on London from above once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London Eye is one of those London icons that is hard to miss. It&#8217;s the UK&#8217;s most popular paid visitor attraction, with an average of 10.000 people per day. But being on a quest to become a true Londoner, I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should experience it myself or whether it&#8217;s so touristy that no true Londoner will ever set foot in those glass capsules. Clearly, my curiosity won&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I slowly saw Big Ben turn into Little Ben, I wasn&#8217;t sure if made the right decision. But fortunately the wheel moves slowly and feels really steady. And with such a spectacular view you quickly forget about your fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire experience lasts about 30 minutes in which it brings you to a height of 135 meter. Having already &#8216;survived&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/view-from-the-shard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the View from the Shard<\/a> at 244 meter, you&#8217;d think that this would be no big deal. But no&#8230;Still scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a tourist or local, I think everybody should admire London from above at least once. It will give you a whole new and exciting perspective on your own city. Just try to avoid being in the same capsule with curious little girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl next to me asking her mother &#8216;are we going to fall into the water?&#8217; didn&#8217;t help, but the view from the London Eye was quite amazing nonetheless.\u00a0Apparently it&#8217;s all about conquering my fear of heights lately, so when I got invited to visit the London Eye I found myself looking down on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-trip","category-europe","category-london","category-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}