17 July 2019
2 new strategies
Exploring the Thames near St Pauls cathedral
To actually give myself some non work time in the evening and to find more opportunities in the day time to sneakily take a few photos, I took my camera to work.
During the work day I had to move offices, so I took a few photos while on the go. Then after work, I just wandered around in my work clothes instead of going back to my hotel first, to maximise my 1.5 hours free time in the day.
Both journeys kind of went to the same eastern part of London near St Pauls and Liverpool street station as you shall see. It is an area I used to visit on my first couple of trips, but I have not been there lately.
I am starting to be annoyed at daylight. It makes for boring photos when its always daylight. Generally when I am on holidays the evenings are darkness, and different due to the day time which is lightness. Basically I wish everything, buildings, shops, lights etc. wasnt always all the same. London is a bit better than Paris in this respect, in that theres some variety in the buildings, but its still pretty grey and boring. The above was worded poorly, I dont care, read it backwards it makes more sense that way.
Tomorrow I have to get up early and go to somewhere near Birmingham for the day, I have no idea what time I will get back. So there may not even be an update tomorrow!
Before that I must fight the slow internet and try and go asleep at 8pm in broad daylight with the noise from the pub downstairs. Good times.
There be dragons here.
Nice colorful sky in the early morning.
You can kind of see Tower Bridge off in the distance, and the Shard to the right.
St Pauls. I like this photo, the stairs on angles in the foreground make it a bit interesting.
This is where cars are brought to justice.
St Pauls from front on, with the early morning sun that has already been in the sky for about 5 hours by now.
In the evening now, and despite still being in central London, here is a modern block of apartments. I had no idea such things existed. They have nice metal rails for birds to perch on.
One of the fancy sandwich / salad cafes where I had dinner recently is Pret a Manger, every now and then you see a special vegetarian only branch of the same store. Interesting idea, the only time I saw something similar was vege only Subway stores in India.
Regulations around car washes seem to be a bit lax in London, just some dudes with drums of chemicals running down the drain as they scrape grease and toxins off filthy vans. I looked up if I was spelling lax right, I am, its a relaxed way of saying relaxed.
This part of London could pass as an Australian city, modern taller buildings. Not enough trees to be Australia though. Actually not a single tree at all!
This is Liverpool street station, busy, free toilets!
Children have constructed this fish out of plastic bottles. Once the exhibition is over they will take it down to Dover and float it out to sea to see how far it goes before it disintegrates and becomes delicious sea plastic.
A Japanese / Chinese house has fallen onto this bridge!
London bridge, in the news today. It has a lot of pedestrian protecting furniture now. The crowd going across here is immense.
I was a bit closer to tower bridge in the afternoon than in the morning. It is further east than I remembered.
A very strange fountain. It looks like a used bit of filthy shade cloth floating in a puddle. But no, its cooper I think.
A Britishly pompous concert with roaring gaiety broke out. Featuring the Wizard of Oz theme complete with whistles and bells.
Now check out my healthy dinner, from yet another casual sit in restaurant chain! Vegetarian sushi / gyoza. Really nice. They have thoughtfully provided self serve GOCHUJANG, so I added Korean pepper sauce to vegetarian sushi.