The Boston Globe has an amazing set of aerial photographs of London at night by British photographer Jason Hawkes. Taken from a helicopter using gyro-stabilized mounts, the pictures provide a new perspective on the city I live in; from 100ft up, the O2 looks like some kind of bio-luminescent deep-sea jellyfish, the Christmas lights on
Category: London
Snowed In
It started snowing yesterday and by the time we left to drive Matt to Heathrow it was coming down heavily. It didn’t stop all night and in the morning London woke to a thick covering of snow. It snowed all day today, too and thanks to the heaviest snow fall in two decades there was
A new bus for London
Like most Londoners, I was sorry to see the much loved Routemasters phased out a few years ago in favour of the much hated bendy buses. But all is not lost! In July our Mayor, Boris Johnson, launched a competition to design a new bus for London inspired by the Routemaster and a design by
Banksy
Over the weekend a new work by Banksy appeared on a wall outside the Post Office sorting building in Newman Street near my work. There’s no tag, so it’s possible it’s not by him but it certainly looks like a Banksy and the fact that, according to the Mail, it required three stories of scaffolding
Swiss Re
Last Wednesday we had lunch at 30 St Mary Axe, otherwise known as the Gherkin. Designed by Foster and Partners, it is the second tallest building in the City and one of my favourite London buildings. For years I’ve been meaning to see inside on one of the London Open House days so I was
A whale in Chelsea
A Northern bottle-nosed whale swam up the Thames on Friday and made it about as far as Battersea Bridge. This morning I went to have a look and I took some pictures. This is supposedly the first time a whale has been seen in the Thames since records began for this kind of thing but
End of an era
The No 19 Routemasters won’t be growling past our windows much longer. According to the London Bus Page, the last Routemaster will pull into the Battersea Garage on 1 April 2005. This is just one more in a growing list of routes that have been phasing out their Routemasters over the last year. By the
F1 London
It is the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone. There are plans to bring a Monaco style GP to London and to promote this idea there was a parade of F1 cars down Regent street on Tuesday night. Working nearby and finishing at 4:15, I thought it might be cool to wander down after
Surprise visit
Well, Matt should be landing in Cairo right about now. I hope he packed some sunscreen. I checked the weather: 37C. Yuck. He was originally going to fly to Cairo from Algiers, but decided to swing by London when an earthquake changed his itinerary. Unbeknownst to me, he had been in contact with Kathryn and
London Peace March
On Saturday London played host to the biggest public demonstration Britain has ever seen. About one million people converged on Hyde Park to protest against the probable war with Iraq. Being a tool of corporate greed I had to work, but Kathryn was there and she took some photographs. You can find them in the