Games underway

And now the Games in London have kicked off....wow, what a buzz.

Travel Card Cover

I was eager to have this one which is why I grabbed the free-bee, which I normally don't pursue....

London for dummies...

Blackfriars Rail Bridge

Found that worth keeping

Reading Orwell

Sometimes reading Orwell's 1984 gives me a chill as it reminds me of so many things...blast from past in East Germany.

"A Party member is required to have not only the right opinions, but the right instincts. Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in the Ingsoc. [...] But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Newspeak [...], makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever."  (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949)

London is getting fuller and fuller

Having been in the City on weekdays after sun set, I realized how full London actually is. Cueing to get on teh Tube is the most annoying thing and the zick-zack walking because there is this endless stream of people, and nobody is really nice or considerate. Everybody is just pressing on.....



My First Pimm's

On the 5th July 2012....was ok....

Sherlock Holmes

"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know"
(from "The Blue Carbuncle" of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle, 1892)

Heimat laesst gruessen; der idyllische See nahe dem Elterhaus; idyllic lake near my childhood home...Kyritz, Germany (north of Berlin)

360 view of Central London

http://the-shard.com/views/360.html............

(Urban Peek)

Rain, Rain, Rain

This rain is getting on peoples'nerves, and there is nothing one can do about :) Wettest April and June in UK weather recording history.