- Pet Shop Boys, "London"
I visited Old Blighty for Easter and drank most of the champers in Kettner's.
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| London - April 2007 | ||||||||||||
| "We were in London, let's do it, let's break the law. We were in London, tell it like it is." - Pet Shop Boys, "London" I visited Old Blighty for Easter and drank most of the champers in Kettner's. |
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| Paddington Station, fresh off of the Heathrow Express. Easter Weekend is a four-day holiday, beginning on Good Friday and lasting until Monday. The city was very quiet. | Holborn Station on the Underground, descending to the Picadilly Line. | |||||||||||
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| Cleopatra's Needle, on the Thames. The sandstone is rapidly deteriorating from urban pollution and age. | ||||||||||||
| The Masonic Temple near Covent Garden plays a fictional role on my favorite BBC show, "Spooks." In the series, it is called Thames House and serves as the headquarters of MI-5, Britain's counter-intelligence service. | ||||||||||||
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| Nelson's Column at Trafalgar Square. | ||||||||||||
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| Kettner's. My favorite lounge in London. | ||||||||||||
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| Doctor'n the TARDIS. If you don't know what a TARDIS is, then don't ask. | ||||||||||||
| This installation at the National Art Gallery was entitled "Jericho" and looked like it could topple at any moment. | ||||||||||||