For a bookshop with history and atmosphere head to Hatchards at 187 Piccadilly, next to Fortnum and Mason and opposite the Royal Academy. It was established in 1797 and is […]
The Victoria Memorial on a sunny day, taken with my iPhone 4. The Memorial, created by Sir Thomas Brock, was dedicated in 1911 by two of her grandsons, George V and Wilhelm […]
The details of the base of Paul Day’s “The Meeting Place” statue in St Pancras station was taken with my iPhone 4, cropped slightly using Picasa: In case you were […]
Tigers have come to St Pancras! The tigers is the largest cat species, reaching up to 3.3 metres (11 ft) in length and weighing up to 306 kg (670 lb). This magnificent animal is endangered: […]
London is blessed with some great parks, such as Green Park and St James’s Park. It also has lots of small public gardens right in the heart of town. The garden in the centre […]
A damp, grey and wet London day did not deter the revellers yesterday, though it did make taking photographs more difficult: fingers numbed by cold and thick gloves, umbrella balanced […]
This window on Chancery Lane in London caught my attention for several reasons: the flowers (because there are so few around in the depths of a British winter), the building […]
There is always something new to discover in London: these painted walls, for example, The mural below is set back from the street on the west side of Tottenham Court […]
I had a few minutes to spare this week in London. It was a sunny yet bitterly cold day, but after a succession of dull and dreary ones I decided to make […]
