Chinese New Year begins to tomorrow so I took a wander through Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown this afternoon. The main celebrations in London will be next Sunday, 29th January in Chinatown and Trafalgar Square.
Iceworks
Ice art from the 2012 London Ice Sculpting Festival in Canary Land London. This year’s show drew mega crowds but didn’t quite cut it. What happened to the team events from last year that gave us the magnificent ice people of Portugal?
Happy New Year
In front of University College Hospital at Euston in London on a mid-winter’s day, 2012. Buses resting on a stand before they set off to fleece the citizens of London with the annual “fare rise” ripoff. A single journey (just one stop even) on one of these beasts could cost you £2.10. The fares on London Transport have risen by 30-40% since 2009. And they talk about bankers! Let’s add the Mayor Of London to that list!
Bluefriars Station
The new Blackfriars Station spanning the River Thames in London will be completing and opened in stages over the next 6 months. The station spans the River Thames and passengers can access the station from both the north and south banks. Already a new station entrance on the Southbank has opened giving train travellers easy access to the Tate Modern.
Winter Wonderland
The German Christmas market comes to Hyde Park, London.
Night Scene Camden Market
The view from Camden Market on a Sunday evening across the canal to Inspiral
Bridge over the Regent’s Canal
Camden Market and the footbridge over Regent’s Canal on an autumn Sunday evening.
Share The Lolly
In front of St Paul’s Cathedral, London during the Occupy LSE protest. For certain strata of our society, life’s just one big game of Supermarket Sweep: fill my trolley full of lolly and then some…and then some…and then…some…more… and then some more… and…more and…more and…THEN SOME MORE… and then?
Urban Scene Canalside
Regent’s Canal in North London is flanked by a range of buildings and parks. Here in Camden Town it passes through new housing and office developments.
Unseasonal
Cooling off on the Thames during an unseasonally warm week in London.