It is both traditional & modern, crude but also very sophisticated, melancholic yet cheerful, liberal & also conservative, very British but also very multicultural, a metropolis packed full with contrasts & clichés. London is all of this & much more. You either hate it or love it.planet.
Photo Hotspots
The Shipwrights Arms
The Shard
Southwark Cathedral
The Golden Hinde II
The Market Porter
Borough Market
Millenium Bridge
St. Paul's Cathedral
Cannon Street
The Monument
Tower Of London
Tower Bridge
Sky Garden
HMS Belfast
Palace Of Westminster
London Eye
Queens Walk
Westminster Abbey
City Hall
Abingdon Street Gardens
Westminster Bridge
British Museum
Big Ben
The Gherkin
Canada Square
London Stock Exchange
Colour Gallery
As a kid I was always excited to visit my Grandmother at Christmas who lived in a high-rise flat on Charing Cross Road, 10 minutes walk from Trafalgar Square. She lived on the 18th floor with admirable views across north London towards the Post Office Tower. I can imagine that my general interest for city skylines today originates from these earlier experiences. Although landscaping is my foremost passion, cityscapes on the other hand are also subjects that time & again capture my interest. London is a fascinating metropolis, steeped in culture & history & where the phrase “Multicultural Society” is ever existent in every facet of daily life.
“You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
– Samuel Johnson
“A mighty mass of brick & smoke & shipping,
Dirty & dusty, but as wide as eye
Could reach, with here & there a sail just skipping
In sight, then lost amidst the forestry
Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping
On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;
A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown
On a fool’s head – & there is London Town.”
– Lord Byron
“It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute & undismayed.”
– George VI
“Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots & brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
That I love London so
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
That I think of her wherever I go
I get a funny feeling inside of me
Just walking up and down
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
That I love London town.”
– Hubert Gregg
Did You Know?
Black cab (taxi) drivers in London have to memorize every street name & important building in London within six miles (9,5 km) from Charing Cross & they need to take a test called ‘The Knowledge’ before they can drive a cab.
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