Блоги: заметки с тегом London

London in May 2023

Robert — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:49:25 +0500

First of all, the euphoric smell is still there. I didn’t find it as common as in 2020 and before, but it does come from the Tube and it also came from a bus. May it stay.

A beautiful window:

A beautiful lantern:

Greenery:

Plaques:

Other address lettering:

Soviet architecture:

A traffic light:

An outdoor table:

Doors:

A mighty entryway:

A lovely face:

Trees and bricks:

A brick wall:

The London Fire Brigade’s coat of arms reminds me of the Kiribati flag 🇰🇮:

Chinatown:

A gallery:

A patriotic flag display:

An ice cream van:

A charming car:

A square:

The London Eye:

Big Sister is watching:

A pharmacy swastika:

Wokeness at the Wellcome Collection:

My message:

The first words of one of my favorite poëms, Leisure, on a sticker:

Other city details:

Unlike Italy, there is a lot of Asian and Indian cuisine in London. Its spicy aromas are a delight.

Packaging at the supermarket:

Drinking from a coconut:

A water bottle:

Swedenborg’s Rules of Tremulation:

It’s a shame Selfridges doesn’t sell fridges.

The industrial smell of London

Robert — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:49:14 +0500

Robert:

The industrial smell of London brings me a kind of euphoria that I don’t feel in any other circumstance.

Outside of London, I sense this smell only a couple of times per year for no more than a minute.

London in January 2020

Robert — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:49:33 +0500

Robert:

Having arrived in the UK for the first time in three and a half years, I recorded my first feelings:

Notice how the Tube train’s buttons are on the doors’ edges rather than next to each other in the middle:

The waffle marking usually applied on road intersections extends to train-station platforms:

Good London wayfinding extends to its Transport Museum:

Parking sign:

Plaque in South-East London:

The classic Westminster street name plaque. Nice bricks, too!

Sale Place:

Two gorgeous plaques next to each other:

English heritage:

The man is turning into an octopus:

The exciting and thrilling danger of death:

Crooked Billet Yard. I’m not making these names up!

Air quality monitoring:

Nice little square:

Greenery in a street:

Vitsœ store:

London shops don’t just sell things. They are places where people come for an experience:

Novelty Automation is home to fun and unique arcade machines:

As well as to a beautiful plaque:

And this marvellous request. (Boycott banks into irrelevance):

The wall subconsciously tells us that this is a cinema:

London’s other side:

Beware of tailgaters:

Hats repurposed into lamps at Luton Airport:

My other photos, videos, and audio recordings of London:
Oat drink ads
Canada geese
Thameslink voice announcement

Canada geese in London

Robert — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:10:15 +0500

Robert:

January 18, 2020:

Thameslink voice announcement

Robert — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:47:00 +0500

Robert:

Please mind the gap between the train and the platform. This station is Horley. This train terminates at Bedford. We will be calling at Red Hill, Coulsdon South, Purley, East Croydon, London Bridge, London Blackfriars, Farringdon, London St. Pancras International, West Hampstead Thameslink, St. Albans City, Harpenden, Luton Airport Parkway, Luton, Leagrave, Harlington, Flitwick, and Bedford

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 25

Robert — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:19:43 +0500

Robert:

Week 24 ←→ Week 26

Thursday, June 18

What happened to your heads, people?

Friday, June 19

Netflix’s interface is excellent: when starting watching a new season, it gives me a recap of the previous one.

Oh, and best of all, Netflix lets me skip the useless intros of movies and series.

Saturday, June 20

One of my favorite things about the UK is the unique scent of bread coming from bakeries. It goes along fantastically with the industrial smell of London.

Oat drink ads in London

Robert — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:52:45 +0500

Robert:

When I arrived at King’s Cross station, I smiled after a bus with an oat drink ad passed by:

I love this kind of wit:

Shoreditch

Driverless trains

Robert — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:57:30 +0500

Robert:

How have driverless trains still not replaced normal ones? I get the situation with cars, as they need approvals and laws, but trains are different.

Moscow metro directors say that the intervals will be longer than with traditional drivers, but this can’t possibly be real. There is much more communication between driverless trains that between normal ones, so the intervals would be the same or smaller. Sure, the technology may need upgrading, but this is a no-brainer for a worthwhile investment.

I’ve been in several driverless trains: Paris’s airport shuttle, Milan’s M5 line, London’s DLR, the Turin metro, Pisa’s airport shuttle. They all work really well and insure more security than regular trains.

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