34 posts tagged “london”
Show us your local hangout.
Show us your favorite local restaurant.
My fave local eatery is the fabulous Lilly's on Wapping High Street. Love it. Great food, extensive menu, friendly staff. And a five minute waddle home when I'm full of steak and beer. Can't ask for more than that!
I was just out for a walk in the sun, and I came across this new monument on Wapping High Street.
It's dedicated to the civilian dead of the WWII Blitz on London's East End. Quite striking and tasteful, I thought.
As the sun was shining, it gave me the perfect opportunity to take a couple of snaps with the iPhone to guage the quality.
Not too bad for a camera on a mobile, I think.
Bob Crow (may his testicles shrivel and fall off) has just announced another Tube strike, this one to last for four days. The BBC has the details here and more from Annie Mole here.
It's set for April 6th to 9th, but based on previous strikes I can see disruption to the network spilling over into the 10th as the strike won't end until 1830 on the 9th. Bastards. Aaaargh.
(Warning: parochial posting, containing public transport-related ranting).
And just how drunk are they? Seriously. First they shut down the East London Line. Fine, I can see the logic. They're going to upgrade it and link to other (albeit shitty) locations. Then they cancel the replacement bus service, which didn't cross the river in any case. You'll be familiar with this, I have ranted on this topic previously.
This meant more use of the DLR to get from A to B. Not a big deal. However, then I hear TfL are closing the Tower Hill DLR station until next year - another local transport inconvenience. Then, this afternoon I read that TfL are closing the interchange between the one remaining central DLR station and the rest of the tube.
That's right, no interchange between Bank and Monument stations. Until August of next year. Over a year. Non-London readers won't think this much of an issue, until you think about just how may thousands and thousands of people use this major interchange daily. It will be pandemonium. Are they really setting out to make it difficult to travel into central London from East London and the Docklands?
The ever-reliable Annie Mole has the details on her London Underground Tube blog. And for what it's worth, here's TfL's explanation. Their suggestions for alternate interchanges for passengers are priceless.
I really wonder sometimes. Trained chimps could run London's public transport system better sometimes.
Bah!!
Just in case that last video didn't give you the chills, check out this one - taken from the flight deck on board a plane landing at the same airport.
Now you can see what I mean about the runway and the river. A steady hand required...
...reminded me of this video clip recorded last month. This is a jet trying to land at London City Airport. Ouch.
I'm flying to Paris from here on Wednesday... hope the weather calms down before then...
For those of you unfamiliar with City, it's based in London's docklands and the runway is surrounded by the River Thames on three sides.
So, one false move and....splash. On a positive note, based on how much I've been eating lately, I could use myself as a flotation device. :-)
I've never had my camera with me, but worrying that it might be dismantled before I get organised enough to actually bring my camera, I used my Treo to take a couple of 'on the hoof' shots.
It's hard to tell from the pics, but it's a real tree. In daylight, it's quite eye-catching.
For any Londoners reading this, you can see it in the flesh at the Wapping Project, Wapping High Street, who also do a most excellent brunch.
