Day 219 – Out of the familiar
“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you’ve lived in one all your life.” ~ Kate Milford This is definitely true of London. I have lived in […]
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“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you’ve lived in one all your life.” ~ Kate Milford This is definitely true of London. I have lived in […]
Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don’t it just look so pretty This disappearing world ~ David Gray I am a true night owl. We rarely go to bed before midnight. In […]
“Brutalist architecture arouses passion and fury in equal measure. Of all the styles of housing in London, none is more polarising.” ~ Kate Watson-Smyth It is easy to look at this building, a perfect example […]
“I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like” ~ […]
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I’ll not be knowing, Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.” ~ Cyril Connolly In which London is too large but I like it that way. Sprawling and giant, […]
“I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors any more, I want them to turn black” ~ Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” ~ Greg Anderson I have discovered that there is a huge difference between how people behave […]
London: “It is the biggest aggregation of human life – the most complete compendium of the world.” ~ Henry James This picture was taken in a part of London that I call home, even though […]
When I was a child and young adult this part of Kings Cross in London was a run down almost derelict part of the city. It was definitely an area that you did not wander […]