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A Sunday Walk in London

November 22, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

I had two things in mind for walking around London today: Visit a Christmas market near Oxford Street and see some rainforest tree stumps from Western Ghana. I never found the market, but here’s what I did find/discover/learn today:

 

  1. Rainforest tree stumps from Western Ghana are much more twisted than Douglas Fir trees from Northwest America
  2. Shelters for taxi drivers (cabmen shelters) have been in London since 1875, are no larger than a horse and cart, but can seat 13 with a small kitchen
  3. Selfridges has been around since 1909
  4. Walking down Fleet Street is a bit like an outdoor museum, which includes St. Bride’s Church – it was the inspiration for the layered cakes we’re all used to seeing at weddings.
  5. Walking into a vast, empty, and completely dark space is a weird feeling. (the exhibit at the Tate Modern by Miroslaw Balka is a massive steel box that is open on one end, but no light is shining into it so everyone just slowly walks into it. Walking out is fine since you can see the light at the open end, but walking into the dark is very weird)

Click the pictures to see my highlights from today’s walk. Yes, I had rain and sunshine.

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