I Took a Walk Around London Today

The city is much smaller than I think.  I walked very easily from the City to the West End this afternoon.  I visited the John Soane Museum, which I would like to move into.  And I popped into the National Gallery.  I could do this everyday…

I was too lazy to bring my real camera.  Iphone camera doesn’t love dark London winters.  Looking at these on the screen, I actually think it hates them.  These spaces were really beautiful today, even in dimly lit January.

London really does undulation really well.  You leave a very busy and big street through a tiny lane and end up in a quiet residential square or mews block, literally feet from the mayhem.  Like from Fleet Street up to Lincoln’s Inn Fields.  I literally went down a quirky lane three feet wide and ended up in the formal, expansive Fields.  I have also grown to love the City, if only for the interesting things that have happened as 20th century office architecture has attempted to wedge into a finite space where you constantly trip over old churches and halls, or remnants thereof.

St Paul’s from One New Change

St Paul’s from the north

Glough Square

St Paul’s from Fleet Street

Near Covent Garden

Near Lincoln’s Inn Fields

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