As my wife is good in bullying me around (even if she is far far away), it is again my duty to catch up with the blog and give you some news about our life. As I am not as good as Mitza in preparing these maps where we have been, it will be more of a Bravo Foto Lovestory (For all non-German readers - never mind, you have not missed anything). Additionally, no food stories, as my cousin complained we are just writing about eating - I wonder if any of my friends was surprised that the blog would take this direction...?
So we went out on Sunday to enjoy the nice weather and do some serious sightseeing, as I have been several times to London, but always without the chance to visit the famous landmarks. But as we not have learned our lesson from the restaurant opening hours (see post about the trip to Bath in August) we of course did not look up opening hours before. This meant: Westminster Abbey closed the whole day for service and House of Parliament shut down, too...
Nevertheless we took some pictures of the surrounding architecture to give you an impression of the area:
Something else you will start to see at the end of October are small red paper flowers at the coats and jackets of people, the so called "Poppy". This is a charity for the military service. In connection with the remembrance of all soldiers that have served in the Royal Army there is also a temporary memorial for the soldiers that lost their lives so far, which gives a quite impressive picture that we can hardly show with one picture, but nevertheless we try. What you see here is a small wooden cross for each victim.
We then decided to take a walk through Green Park to Buckingham Palace. The autumn was in full effect and the squirrels were used to tourists.
By the way, from the two above the lower picture shows the squirrel... :D
After a short walk we reached Buckingham Palace, and the Queen was at home (according to the flag) and had some oriental visitors (according to the other flags).
Below is Green Park Station, or to be more precise the building above the station, where I arrive each day to go to work.
Of course we could not miss to make a famous "tourist in a red telephone cell" - picture. The state of these leads me to the assumption that they are really just for tourist to take pictures and drunken guys to pee...
We then walked up to Bond Street, which is the most expensive retail street in London. Below is a picture from the window of Faberge, the Russian jeweller famous for the eggs, that opened a store in London recently. Cute little furniture, no price tag.
Just around the corner is the building where I work. No, I am neither selling hand bags nor do I get a discount!
A finally some nice cars that are really useful in London's jammed streets. There even was a price tag on, the Bugatti was just £1.6m - birthday present anyone?
And if I get a Bentley, why in this colour? This was almost as bad as the mint green Porsche I saw a few days later...
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