London & me

Once again.. I took a short holiday and was in London... This time I stayed at the "Britannia International" which is a Hotel on the Canary Wharf. Peers who once where used and then stood still year after year till it looked like all should be putting away but then a bank build a big, big house and so the miracle started... Now this area is very modern, has also little houses... a lot of working place and of course you can live there, shop till you drop there and I was never before there... I liked it, and not because I got my room upgraded and stayed on the tent floor, which had a view on the river.... and the morning sun...

The Hotel seems to stay in the 70tis and the furnitures where a mix of .. well, kind of wannabe "Barock" and "Jugendstil", although somehow it matches everything... and thanxs big windows the room felt quite right... I cannot understand people who close the view they could have from the window.. I always liked it "pure".

London -as always makes me feel good and welcome... and I discover always some new things like the new grass they put in the parks because the Olympic had brought so much visitors that the grass was dying and dying... 

And oh I had the luck of sun... seems it was the first one sunny sunday this year, 'cos everyone was outside.. and the traffic as typically in London on weekends... someone told me... not really working...

But traffic was all the time not what I expected... Did not remember that the ways on the airport are so long and then the Gatwick Express which should not really take more then 30 min was late and then it took about 50 minutes and I though I could have taken the bus... well the same though was coming up when I drove back to the airport... late train, wrong gate, then I found the right train, but we had to change two station before the airport and run to the right train on another gate to drive us forward, although you needed eyes and a brain... :-) So after all, the 30 minutes became one hour.... But that's life and oh. so much like I know it from Berlin... everything is going on the way to renew... build new.. taken away or something like that... nothing really stays the same.. in good and bad....

Anyway, this time I saw much more the difference between Berlin and London.. beginning just with the buildings... the coffee, the colors of the houses, the toilets, the way people act and the mass of tourists...  and I think it is also because after seeing Dr. Who and Documentation about the History of London and after reading Shakespeare... I know a bit more and so my eyes catch new sides... which is so exiting.. 

If London would not be so expensive... I would move without doubt to town... 

Well I had the luck to take breakfast -a french one, in the greek street- and also to eat fish and ships- a must in my eyes- in one of the three oldest location who sell those since 1871... although.. I missed the Pups this time. I cannot say I was bored, more it was a little holiday like it should be.. 

Yes also with a walk in town and a visit in the National Museum... 

But now let's take a look at the pics...won't you?

there I got the very good french breakfast

the flowers in the National Museum.. oh the smell... of flowers... you really could smell them ..

Canary Wharf at the afternoon

the next morning.. can you believe the clouds so deep..?! And that was after the sun went up.. the sky was clear and blue before...unbelievable how it could change and with such a speed...

can you see the Big Ben?

new grass

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