Friday, January 27, 2012

field trip to LDN cafes (+flight back home)

















there are million things to do and places to see, that one gets lost. it's useless to say that this is an amazing city. but a place you want to hate at the same time, cause it forces you to do things, and it's a vortex. and of course you start with the idea of visiting 10 places and you only do 3 from your list in one day of exhausting hustle.


this one up here is probably one of my favourite buildings of bloomsbury.


































after a whole morning of going round and round the cafes I was starting to feel a slight hole in my stomach. especially after seeing the porridge-to-go on this morning train. not that I love the idea, but it's typical of a morning train to london. I finally stopped at a cafe inside the temporary mall in shoreditch, awesome place.
































































































some minutes after my departure on the airport shuttle bus I checked the flight time and did realise that I was tremendously in advance. at this point I asked the conductor to let me off, so I might have got on the next one. he kind of signed my ticket somehow and this gave me the time to have an extra trip to the fabulous tea building (lipton's first building in london), not far from where I was dropped.



Wednesday, January 25, 2012

back to the North




as soon as I land once more in this island I call Ilse to go for a drink together. we meet at the hand and heart pub and gallery where we taste a very nice warm cider. sweet one. this place got my attention at first because of its wallpaper: an original drawing by William Morris, 1862. then, they've got a nice cave and piano, and an extra space on the upper floor.




the main touristic area of the city is no doubts the castle area. here we find tons of house I would potentially buy. I love how all puzzle in this city. the tiles, the bricks, every single window, doors and pavement. everything fits with everything. there's, they say, the oldest pub of england ye olde trip to jerusalem. it all makes me think of Robin Hood, even though he probably came earlier.