As I wrote earlier, I went to London in June to visit Alex, my cousin Bea, Paula and Mario, together with Alex (another one) and Dani. This was the second time I visited this city, and the previous one was 13 years ago… So, we can say this was almost the first time.
I must say that I am not in love with London. It has probably helped to this mindset that I “enjoyed” the typical british weather, which basically consists of all types of weather in a day: sunny and hot; sunny, windy, and chilly; cloudy, windy and cold; rainy and warm; rainy and cold; cloudy and warm; … and all that in the same day. I am surprised I did not get a cold with such temperature changes… Anyway, I will try to abstract from this memory in this a future posts about London. 😉
This post is called London Classics, because I am going to show a few classic spots from London, which I am sure you perfectly know and have seen in hundreds of pictures and movies.
First, the Big Ben. It is the name of the bell of the clock of the tower of the House of Parliament, but everybody thinks it is just the tower, as it is what you can see. It is so familiar, that you do not really get surprised when you see it “live”. 🙂
Another too-many-times-seen monument, but anyway interesting: the Tower Bridge. I do not recall that blue color which has been used to paint it.
London is one the most important city in Europe in the financial world, and you can clearly see it through the different financial districts it has, and especially, the one called “The City”, which is in the city centre, and next to the Thames. Skyscrapers with modern windows, and a representative Norman Foster’s building: the Swiss Re Tower.
But the best thing of London, and the whole Great Britain, are the telephone booths. Everybody using the mobile phones nowadays, but you can still find lots of this classical red booths… Even a few of them in a row! I guess they keep them there because they look nice… In fact, the inside of these boxes is in a quite poor state: full of hotline advertisements, and not very clean… but who cares.
I am reviewing the couple of hundreds of pictures from my last trip to Scotland and some parts of England… It will take some time until I select some pictures, and upload them here…
In the meanwhile, I will post some others from previous trips. I have all the pictures from London still pending, so I expect to have a good posting rate in the following days. 😉 To start with, a picture from one of the best museums in the world (and for free!): the British Museum:
Sufriendo en Gandía
… for breakfast. Do the Brits really eat this every morning?
