Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Eye in the sky
You couldn't have asked for better weather in London last weekend; summer is finally picking up where it left off a month ago; though it's still chilly in the shade.
On Friday we arranged a despedida for anj on the London Eye; we had been on it once before but this was her first time. The sun came out an hour before we queued up and the view was fantastic. Apart from the odd residential skyscraper poking into the air like an ugly steel finger, the London skyline is decidedly low-rise. As you lift up above Charing Cross station and the West End you can see all the way south to Wimbledon; west to the Kew Gardens and Richmond; north to the Hampstead Heath and east to the Docklands. We carried cameras like experienced gunslingers and I truly appreciated having a wide angle lens at this point; I could take in the entire capsule and make the most out of the high vantage point.
this is NOT my wide angle camera. But it's nice anyway.
Afterwards we walked the south bank with Moncho, Nanet and some other friends and drank and ate by the river, the weekend stretching out before us with possibility. As it turned out, the entire weekend was a succession of drinks, lying about lazily in the Sun; and killing time with friends. It almost made me forget that I was being evicted from the flat by my landlord.
Yes, isn't London great? the city that gave birth to leasehold ownership also invented the concept of the property ladder. The upshot of this is that Van and I are now "on the market", as they say. But I could have done without the time pressure.
On Friday we arranged a despedida for anj on the London Eye; we had been on it once before but this was her first time. The sun came out an hour before we queued up and the view was fantastic. Apart from the odd residential skyscraper poking into the air like an ugly steel finger, the London skyline is decidedly low-rise. As you lift up above Charing Cross station and the West End you can see all the way south to Wimbledon; west to the Kew Gardens and Richmond; north to the Hampstead Heath and east to the Docklands. We carried cameras like experienced gunslingers and I truly appreciated having a wide angle lens at this point; I could take in the entire capsule and make the most out of the high vantage point.
this is NOT my wide angle camera. But it's nice anyway.Afterwards we walked the south bank with Moncho, Nanet and some other friends and drank and ate by the river, the weekend stretching out before us with possibility. As it turned out, the entire weekend was a succession of drinks, lying about lazily in the Sun; and killing time with friends. It almost made me forget that I was being evicted from the flat by my landlord.
Yes, isn't London great? the city that gave birth to leasehold ownership also invented the concept of the property ladder. The upshot of this is that Van and I are now "on the market", as they say. But I could have done without the time pressure.
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