Worldcon—Embassies and Jefferson Memorial

I had some time in Washington, D.C. during Worldcon. Instead of taking a guided tour, I decided to go off the beaten path. I discovered this statue of Winston Churchill outside the British Embassy.

The rest of the embassy is so fenced off, any pictures of it would mainly be of black iron fences, so it wouldn’t have been worth it.  

Here is the very modern Embassy of Brazil, with the more traditional Embassy of Bolivia next to it.

To enter, one must walk underneath a great mass of the building.

D.C. was unseasonably warm when I was there. Surprisingly, no one else was there on this side of the Jefferson Memorial.

The flash wasn’t on for Jefferson’s statue, so this is what I call Dark Jefferson.

Here are the initial words of the Declaration of Independence, carved in large letters. 

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This is the front of the Jefferson Memorial, across the Tidal Basin. A couple of pedestrians are on the steps, which gives some idea of the scale of the Memorial.

Next time, I will give a few details of the convention.