Exploring London

Horsenden Hill was our destination on a warm summer evening. The sun was slowely setting in a red colour, promising another fine sunny day the day after. Horsenden Hill is located between Greenfod and Perivale, West of London.

Hyde Park

Hyde Park after 6pm, after work can look like this on a warm, sunny evening. Lots of tourists, lots of cyclists. The grass patches were packed with people as well.

Fatherland-The Book

"Zurich was more beautiful than he had expected. Its centre reminded him of Hamburg. Old buildings clusteredaround the edge of the wide lake. Trams in a livery of green and white rattled along the front, past well-lit shops and cafes. The driver was listening to the Voice of America. In Berlin it was a blurof static; here it was clear. 'I wanna hold your hand,' sang a youthful English voice. 'I wanna hold your ha-a-and!' A thousand teenage girls screamed." (from Fatherland by Robert Harris, bestseller in 1992)

The Great British Suburb

Heading West from Notting Hill Gate, it takes 25min to Northolt. This is really not London anymore.

It is the 'Great British suburb'. Residential, endless streets of small terraced houses, dirty, intimidating youth, reckless drivers, rushing pedestrians. But at night it is quiet-good night sleep guaranteed; when you have quite neighbours. Sometimes I can hear my direct neighbours watching TV either as early as 8.30am or late at night....oh,well, telly-most essential gadet in Britain.

Kensington Gems

Strolling Kensington and seeing all these little shops, is taking your mind of off things-that's for sure! And it makes one hungry! Notting Hill and Kensington have been very buzzy in the last few months; perhaps more tourists explore the area as it is Spring. Hoepfully soon I can move back in here.....

All Good Russian

I am still fascinated by all Russian. This one caught my eye....a samowar

Henry Miller quotes

Sometimes he leaves quite philosophical quotes, quotes which make sense.
For example: "You live in the fruites of your action and your action is the harvest of your thought."
(Tropic of Capricorn)

A little bit of Holland in Kensington

Locals may know this little pancake place on Kensington Church Street. If one is hungry (after work) for pancakes, sweet or savory, make your way there: it is easy to find and the food fills you up. It's not the a 5-star-place, but cosy where girls can go naughty :)

Henry Miller on the Tube

“…but when she felt the thing slipping out of her she nearly went crazy. ‘Oh yes, oh yes, do it, do it!’ she gibbered, and with that I really got excited, I had hardly slipped it into her when I felt it coming, one of those long agonizing spurts from the tip of the spinal column.”

This is how  Henry Miller described a good f*/;\           in 1939

Menschenskinder……….luckily my book has a cover so nobody can see what I am reading and smile about…

Henry Miller and spinning heads

"We are the last decimal point of sexual calculation; the world turns like a rotten egg in its crate of straw. Now for the aluminium wings with which to fly to that far-off place, the bright country where Apis, the father of fornication, dwells." wow, and now my head is spinning ....because of him, Henry Miller...whoelse...from Tropics of Capricorn