A View Outside the Dome Gallery of St. Paul's

So now we've moved into the late seventeenth/early eighteenth centuries. Designed by Christopher Wren, the cathedral was built between 1675 and 1710, after the Great Fire of London burned the previous St. Paul's on this site in 1666. We were not allowed to take pictures inside the cathedral so you'll have to take our word for it when I say, "It was spectacular!" We walked up a 200 plus step spiral staircase to the "Whisper Gallery" to get a closer view of the dome. The we climbed an even narrow spiral staircase to the first outside gallery. The modern-looking building shot here from the gallery is called the London Gherkin. It was completed in 2003.