The London Eye

The London eye is a lovely way to end a day of weary sight seeing in London. Take a relaxing 30 minute ride on the London, while it slowly takes you to the top of London. The best time to go up is the last ride of the day. That gives you a chance to see London in both daylight – the last fading light of the day and in the dark.  

Catch Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben flanking the Thames as you go up and St Paul’s Cathedral and Tower Bridge as you descend.

Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus is one of the rowdiest, noisiest and dirtiest places in the whole of the city. A huge statue of Eros is flanked by jazzy noisy sign boards on the neighboring buildings. The steps on the base of the statue are packed with people loitering around, smoking, drinking and hooting. Hookers beckon every passerguy, while ‘Fuck off’, ‘Fuck you’ are randomly thrown around. Weed smoke in the air and the whiff of alcohol. Ice creams wrappers strewn around, broken bottles lying around, not at all a pretty picture place.

 

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History museum house a huge collection of Dinosaur Bones, skulls, rare minerals, gemstones and other exhibits. Below are  

Fossiled Sea Molluscs embedded in stone   

Cavansite – found in only 2 sites in the world – Oregon, USA n Pune, India

  

Some nice-looking mineral – dont remember name

    

The Adorable Red Bus

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw them first was “Now that is so Mumbai – ishtyle”. The irony being that, these are probably the ancestors of our Mumbai buses.

The colonial hangover is deep!

 

Twilight zone

Undoubtedly one of the most majestic buildings in the city and probably the world too, the British Houses of Parliament and the famed Big Ben make for a pretty picture in the fading twilight.

 

Pictures taken from the Westminster Bridge.

The Roadside Wedding

This is one of the coolest events I have ever seen happening. This picture is taken outside Westminster Abbey where a couple were getting married without the usual hoopla.  Just the groom and the bride, the priest and the open skies. Oblivious to the noisy traffic and camera totting tourists behind them, they step into a beautiful world together.

A trip to the Queens land.

London. In my mind, London was grand, London was rich. London was splendor personified. London was aloof, London was international. London was classy, London was an A-lister. And then, the first day of landing in London, my very first sight was this.  

A roadside tent selling made-in-India scraves, made-in-China bags. Where you could bargain to your hearts content, exactly the way you bargain on Linking Road in Bandra, Mumbai.  The ensuing days changed my opinion of London drastically. More on that later …