This is the recently unveiled waterfall style sign for the Shangri-La hotel at The Shard. Suites in this hotel come with your own dedicated butler… and, no doubt, a price tag to match!
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, London.
I’m often to be found here when waiting for a train home!
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, London.
This is a statue of William Tyndale, who translated the Bible into English half a millennium ago, causing (to put it mildly) a right old stir.
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, London, Tyndale.
It seems I brought the weather with me!
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, London, Thames.
On my way home! Hurray!
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, King's Cross, London.
These scary-looking fish are wrapped around many of the lampposts on the South Bank. I walk past them on my way to work, and often wonder who on earth thought they added to the aesthetic!
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, Fish, London, South Bank.
This is Queen Victoria at sunrise this morning, overlooking Whitehall from her throne atop the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She’s flanked by an absurdly tiny lion and unicorn, and four more reasonably sized classical figures.
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2014, Scrapbook, London, Queen Victoria, Whitehall.
You could only walk two months of the year, the rest of the time the weather is too terrible.
According to the Standard, this was the response of Laura Ritchie, a digital project manager, to TfL’s suggestion that she should consider walking instead of taking the tube.
Another commuter, Laura Belcher, added
Waiting for three tubes means I’m not in the cold and rain
There are many reasons why some might view getting the tube as easier than walkng, but these two exemplify an odd delusion which many Londoners appear to share: that the weather in London is terrible.
I spend a few days each week in London, and have done since February. I always take a 45 minute-ish walk into work from London Bridge to Westminster along the South Bank, except when I’m towing a suitcase. I have attempted to walk on 83 mornings this year so far, and have managed perfectly well (without needing even to take my umbrella out of my bag) 82 times. This morning marked the first occasion that rain convinced me to take the tube.
I have absolutely no earthly idea why people think it constantly rains in London. Either I’ve been preternaturally lucky and tried to walk in on the only 82 mornings when it hasn’t rained, or people have a distorted view of London’s weather. In fact, London has less rainfall each year than Rome, New York, Brisbane, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo.
Perhaps if people had a reality check on what the weather is actually like most of the time, then they’d feel happier with walking – which would probably benefit their health even more than it would reduce TfL’s congestion problem.
This post was filed under: Diary Style Notes, London, Weather.
Someone must have been feeling a little sign-happy at some point…! Actually, I think each sign refers to a different individual bay, but still…
This post was filed under: Photo-a-day 2012, London.
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