Oxford Street, the old one that is, packs in Olympic shoppers even on non-Olympic summer days. This year on this high street of high streets that stretches from the Marble Arch to Tottenham Court Road, the very black-clad burqa gals from steamy-hot Middle Eastern lands...
Ah, the athletics of it all in getting to the Olympic games: the airports, the buses snarled thorough London's narrow medieval streets and the Underground, a web of subways burrowed underneath the city that, even on a non-Olympic summer day swells to capacity with locals...
[caption id="attachment_3127" align="aligncenter" width="112"] COUNTDOWN LONDON 2012[/caption] Okay, you've got everything you need. The camera and smartphone combo with GPS and, just to play it safe your printed guide (better be a MAPPETITE!), a raincoat and an umbrella, though that could turn out to be a...
[caption id="attachment_2511" align="aligncenter" width="150"] A Graffiti Critter Hangs On Bermondsey Street[/caption] After some sketchy decades gentrification is inching away at the East End. While a pervasive cool has enveloped Shoreditch and Hoxton north of the River Thames, winds are now drifting south. Can't find your way? ...