An ordinary Sunday in London..pictures by me!!

Holly, these are all so beautiful. So many of them bring back memories of previous trips to my favorite city - or should I say favourite city? I hope to visit London again next year and this makes me that much more determined. Thanks for posting!
 

Blimey Annie, your daughter looks freezing on such a cloudy day..LOL...beautiful but cold.. :D

Phile...lots of graffiti in many other places and out on the overground bridges and walls etc...graffiti on the underground trains used to be a problem but it was tackled in various ways and now we rarely get it, and when we do it's cleaned up ASAP ... http://www.btp.police.uk/advice_and_information/how_we_tackle_crime/graffiti.aspx


 

Glinda I'm glad that's whetted your appetite for your upcoming trip next year...another member here is coming to London this month from the US and they've loved the pictures of regents park too, and hope to get a chance to visit..

AC...you should have smelled the aroma from that little bakery shop...it was deeeelicious!!

I'll put the last few pictures on shortly..!!
 
hollydolly said:
Blimey Annie, your daughter looks freezing on such a cloudy day..LOL...beautiful but cold.. :D

Phile...lots of graffiti in many other places and out on the overground bridges and walls etc...graffiti on the underground trains used to be a problem but it was tackled in various ways and now we rarely get it, and when we do it's cleaned up ASAP ... http://www.btp.police.uk/advice_and_information/how_we_tackle_crime/graffiti.aspx
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The clouds were deceptive. It was hot or she wouldn't be wearing that. She thinks 20C is too cold and wears many, many layers most of the time. It was July 2010.

Couldn't find the temp on the day I took the photo, but on 9 July 2010 the high temp hit 31C. There were a couple of weeks of higher than normal temps that month.
 
Just a few more around the streets...

A square with cobbled streets surrounding Covent Garden indoor market which is beautiful with restaurants and quaint little shops inside.....lots of street entertainers here of all types.. to the right of this picture is the London Transport Museum

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Inside the market are many little original shops and traders as well as the restaurants and bars...and this is the oldest and now rarest snuff and tobacco shop in the UK I believe..

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A hovering street entertainer...

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China town ( Soho)...never looks very nice during the day, but comes alive at night...sorry no night photos..

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St Martins Lane Piccadilly

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That's all for now folks....hope you've enjoyed a day trip around a little part of my world.. :D
 
Fabulous pictures, Holly! What's with the shoes? I'm fascinated by the people. Do you ever "People read?" I notice that there are no obese people. Don't y'all have fat people over there?
 
Thanks Shirley....oooh I just loved the quirkiness of the shoes in the shop in Camden town. Camden market has always been the place to go if you wanted something a little different from the norm..not so much these days because of the internet I suppose but still little quirky bits here and there.

Oh yes we have overweight people here..in the UK, some parts of the country have more than others, there's not a huge amount around these parts...and it's so expensive to live here in the London area I don't think anyone can afford to eat enough to get fat.. ;) I think I might only be Half kidding..
 
Holly, you're a sweetie to show me a boots were made for walkin' pic! :love_heart: Thanks for sharing such wonderful photos of places I will never see in person, just fantastic! Ameriscot, your daughter is such a lovely young lady, great pic!
 
Thanks SB!

In the UK I see a lot more grossly obese people than when I moved here in 2000.

Holly, I've never been to the Camden markets but have been to Covent Garden a few times.
 
Your London is a lot different from the area
that I live in Hollydolly, great pictures.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
I am in Croydon, Hollydolly.

I also lived in Herfordshire several years ago.

Mike.
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I lived in Herts as well for a short time. Stanstead Abbotts. Husband worked in Enfield.

I only know Croydon as the place my visa stuff was posted to.
 
Enfield of course is not in Hertfordshire, it used to be in Middlesex but it's now Greater London (North london) I know Stanstead Abbots very well as you know.. it's not far from me..
 
hollydolly said:
Enfield of course is not in Hertfordshire, it used to be in Middlesex but it's now Greater London (North london) I know Stanstead Abbots very well as you know.. it's not far from me..
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Aye, in what used to be called Middlesex. Husband had a house in Broxbourne before Stanstead Abbotts.
 
Ameriscot said:
I only know Croydon as the place my visa stuff was posted to.
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Everybody in the World who comes here has to deal with the Home Office
here in Croydon.
Walking through the shopping centre you will hear more other languages
than English.

I lived in Ickleford for a while in the 90s.

Mike.
 

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