anecdotes of london: promenades

london is the perfect city for detouring. the streets rage from narrow and cornered via big shopping streets to humongous places and of course the riverside promenade at the thames. its a dream of a cty for detour lovers. for those people like me that enjoy getting lost in a city and discovering strange corners and simply finding your way around. london is super for that. you can get lost and fid yourself all over again 500 times, and that in each suburb. even resients have proven to be in need of maps in order to get from a to b and still get lost all the time (right mr. k ;) .
i usually went detouring with my mum after museum closure. usually it wa already dark so the picture are in bad light, but that doesnt matter does it?

southbank
this part of town is on the southside pf the thames river. it hold the aquarium, the london eye, the national theatre, the globe the tate modern etc. a wonderful place to hae an everning stroll at, to find an ad hoc exhebition or free concert. it must also be a dream for running. instead of dong the half hour warm up jog in the ajacent fields, id so much prefer running from the millenium bridge to big ben to keep fit. maybe it doesnt hve the best air in downtown london, but it msut be a run that ever gets boring. plus you have an amazing view of the city.

soho
on one of our strolls up from th national gallery tring to find some sort of food, we came to little china (my mum was thrilled to bits and amazed at the masses of chinese apothecaries) and finally through soho. while i attribute the rest of london with a bright brick red, soho is more of a dark brown, if not black. it is full of small dubious restaurandts and shops. a dream to get lost in, even though im not sure its all that safe.

This is bloomsbury at russel square. right next to the brtish museum

bank
our last walk brought me and my mum in to the region of the busy bees. highrise buildins containing box office after box office lined the skyline, in between, the old rests of roman ruins. so much to london being an organic city. this is the proof. pizza express in a 40 story building vs. half collapsed temple at its feet. wonderfull!

pictures coming later