...and eventually good night, autumn London.
Today's wanderings saw me spending an awful lot more on buying a pair of comfy shoe/boots than I mean to (although it was then bliss to be able to walk around again, instead of hobbling!) And I do need them really, since my favourite Croc boots are properly leaking now... *sighs sadly* In the end I didn't do any more locationing after all - I didn't even get to the Embankment, cos although I'd planned to, I accidentally started walking the wrong way... *headdesk* But it meant I got to see some cool bits of London that I venture towards less often - thanks too, to my new shoe/boots... *g*
Street art...
...and arty streets (well, St Pancras tunnel thingie)
Old architecture - that's the Monument to the Great Fire of London
And new architecture looming over old in the City. Hmmn...
Wandering the City - I found old markets, and Fenchurch St, and Bond St...
...and teeny little streets...
This was what I'd been looking for - well, not the new sculpture, though that was there too, but the old Roman Mithraeum, which was down below.
They've made an "immersive experience" where you go in and listen to the sounds, and they project light for atmosphere and so on - and to be honest, it sounded just like the braying laughter of a bunch of blokes working in the financial centre today... :s
I headed down towards the river then, to head home. Loved the doorways...
...and Old Man Thames washing up as high as he could, in splashes of waves.
...and the reflections...
More architecture, old and new - the Shard, with London Bridge lit pink...
...then Tower Bridge, and rain.
And then the nighttime park to match this morning's park!
I wonder if the lads would ever have looked at London like this - well, lots of it wasn't there, of course - no Shard or Walkie-Talkie building (though the Mithraeum actually was there as a display, though it was above ground (they reconstructed it away from its original site so they could build something, and it's recently been moved back and incorporated into the building by the new owner). I know it's partly the film stock, but London always looked so grey and brown and sort of grim in Pros - it seems to have perked up alot these days. Maybe it's just clearing away the last of the WWII bomb damage, and a penchant for more sparkly lights everywhere, but... I dunno. Does it seem to be differently coloured, you-people-who-live-in-London, or is that just an artefact of our old (beloved) tv series?!
Street art...
...and arty streets (well, St Pancras tunnel thingie)
Old architecture - that's the Monument to the Great Fire of London
And new architecture looming over old in the City. Hmmn...
Wandering the City - I found old markets, and Fenchurch St, and Bond St...
...and teeny little streets...
This was what I'd been looking for - well, not the new sculpture, though that was there too, but the old Roman Mithraeum, which was down below.
They've made an "immersive experience" where you go in and listen to the sounds, and they project light for atmosphere and so on - and to be honest, it sounded just like the braying laughter of a bunch of blokes working in the financial centre today... :s
I headed down towards the river then, to head home. Loved the doorways...
...and Old Man Thames washing up as high as he could, in splashes of waves.
...and the reflections...
More architecture, old and new - the Shard, with London Bridge lit pink...
...then Tower Bridge, and rain.
And then the nighttime park to match this morning's park!
I wonder if the lads would ever have looked at London like this - well, lots of it wasn't there, of course - no Shard or Walkie-Talkie building (though the Mithraeum actually was there as a display, though it was above ground (they reconstructed it away from its original site so they could build something, and it's recently been moved back and incorporated into the building by the new owner). I know it's partly the film stock, but London always looked so grey and brown and sort of grim in Pros - it seems to have perked up alot these days. Maybe it's just clearing away the last of the WWII bomb damage, and a penchant for more sparkly lights everywhere, but... I dunno. Does it seem to be differently coloured, you-people-who-live-in-London, or is that just an artefact of our old (beloved) tv series?!