(Almost) Random Photos of London
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Thought we'd put up some photos of stuff... Everyone likes photos.
We attended the free yet craptastic and deceptively-named "Regent Street Festival - A Walk Through Spain". It would have been more apt if they had called it "Regent Street Festival - Try to walk through the thousands of other people trying to grab freebie brochures whilst getting bored and annoyed as we haven't really organised it that well and we don't really have much else for you to do or see"
Another photo from the Regent Street Festival. These two photos happen to be of the only two slightly interesting things. Then again, it only really captures your interest for maybe half a minute while you laugh at the guy's jumpsuit in the first picture and then as you ooh and aah whilst they construct a human pyramid.
Statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus
Kathryn outside the National Gallery and with the St Martin-in-the-Fields Church behind her.
Inside Queen Mary's Blizard Building, which houses Queen Mary University's Institute of Cell and Molecular Science. We saw this as part of the Open House London programme where they let people in to lots of famous, interesting or historically significant buildings across London for free. This is the separate below ground lab workspace.
A lecture theatre (spiky black thing) and a meeting room (airplane engine shaped white thing) inside the Blizard Building. Tam was quite impressed with this building and thought the red blood cell-shaped stools in the Cafe were novel. However, we did question the separation of office and lab workspaces and the unenclosed design of the lab space.
A view of the "Gherkin" building. One of the other London landmarks you could visit, but only if you pre-booked a decade in advance.
The Lloyds Building, which was designed by Richard Rogers who also did Le Pompidou in Paris.
Inside the Lloyd's Building
Escalators in the Lloyd's Building
Statue of Eve
Statue of a hare
Me with Nacho Libre in Covent Garden! Some guy yelled out to him that in the movie he had no hair on his chest. He replied back (in a Scottish accent) that that was true and that he did remember to shave it again but that was last week.
The Brixton Academy where we went saw Xavier Rudd supporting Michael Franti & Spearhead.
Inside the Brixton Academy (1)
Inside the Brixton Academy (2)
Xavier Rudd playing everything but the kitchen sink (1)
Xavier Rudd playing everything but the kitchen sink (2)
Michael Franti pops out on stage during Xavier Rudd's set to add some vocal firepower.
Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Tate Modern on the banks of the muddy and brown Thames River
Tina modelling a funky beanie from the Camden Markets
On top of the Liberty London building
Tower Bridge
Building near London Bridge
Southwark Cathedral with a scary sculpture of a knight
Ceiling of Shakepeare's Globe stage when we saw Coriolanus
The bloodied hair that almost landed on Tina
Farewell dinner for Tam and Ana in a Moroccan Restaurant with Imperial College people
Farewell dinner for Tam and Ana with their Imperial College friends
Farewell party at O'Neill's pub in Shepherds Bush for Ana (Tam's Brazilian friend from Imperial College), with her boyfriend Felipe, and other friend, Eva and her boyfriend Roland.
The London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican Hall, which we saw for free last week as part of the Open Rehearsal programme. They were rehearsing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (very good!) and Steve Reich’s Three Movements (very dull).
They brought out some marimbas for the Steve Reich piece. They weren't as good as you Tom. However, like all typical percussionists, they were very eager to show off. They also had four pianists playing on two pianos for this piece. Wasn't he a minimalist dude?
A minotaur (and the Gherkin in the background)
Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall
Regent's Park
Euston Road (before we moved buildings, this was one of my fave views of London, as it meant that I would be on my way home from a gruelling day at work)
Wolfmother rocking out at the Hammersmith Palais (1)
Wolfmother rocking out at the Hammersmith Palais (2)
Thought we'd put up some photos of stuff... Everyone likes photos.
We attended the free yet craptastic and deceptively-named "Regent Street Festival - A Walk Through Spain". It would have been more apt if they had called it "Regent Street Festival - Try to walk through the thousands of other people trying to grab freebie brochures whilst getting bored and annoyed as we haven't really organised it that well and we don't really have much else for you to do or see"
Another photo from the Regent Street Festival. These two photos happen to be of the only two slightly interesting things. Then again, it only really captures your interest for maybe half a minute while you laugh at the guy's jumpsuit in the first picture and then as you ooh and aah whilst they construct a human pyramid.
Statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus
Kathryn outside the National Gallery and with the St Martin-in-the-Fields Church behind her.
Inside Queen Mary's Blizard Building, which houses Queen Mary University's Institute of Cell and Molecular Science. We saw this as part of the Open House London programme where they let people in to lots of famous, interesting or historically significant buildings across London for free. This is the separate below ground lab workspace.
A lecture theatre (spiky black thing) and a meeting room (airplane engine shaped white thing) inside the Blizard Building. Tam was quite impressed with this building and thought the red blood cell-shaped stools in the Cafe were novel. However, we did question the separation of office and lab workspaces and the unenclosed design of the lab space.
A view of the "Gherkin" building. One of the other London landmarks you could visit, but only if you pre-booked a decade in advance.
The Lloyds Building, which was designed by Richard Rogers who also did Le Pompidou in Paris.
Inside the Lloyd's Building
Escalators in the Lloyd's Building
Statue of Eve
Statue of a hare
Me with Nacho Libre in Covent Garden! Some guy yelled out to him that in the movie he had no hair on his chest. He replied back (in a Scottish accent) that that was true and that he did remember to shave it again but that was last week.
The Brixton Academy where we went saw Xavier Rudd supporting Michael Franti & Spearhead.
Inside the Brixton Academy (1)
Inside the Brixton Academy (2)
Xavier Rudd playing everything but the kitchen sink (1)
Xavier Rudd playing everything but the kitchen sink (2)
Michael Franti pops out on stage during Xavier Rudd's set to add some vocal firepower.
Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Tate Modern on the banks of the muddy and brown Thames River
Tina modelling a funky beanie from the Camden Markets
On top of the Liberty London building
Tower Bridge
Building near London Bridge
Southwark Cathedral with a scary sculpture of a knight
Ceiling of Shakepeare's Globe stage when we saw Coriolanus
The bloodied hair that almost landed on Tina
Farewell dinner for Tam and Ana in a Moroccan Restaurant with Imperial College people
Farewell dinner for Tam and Ana with their Imperial College friends
Farewell party at O'Neill's pub in Shepherds Bush for Ana (Tam's Brazilian friend from Imperial College), with her boyfriend Felipe, and other friend, Eva and her boyfriend Roland.
The London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican Hall, which we saw for free last week as part of the Open Rehearsal programme. They were rehearsing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (very good!) and Steve Reich’s Three Movements (very dull).
They brought out some marimbas for the Steve Reich piece. They weren't as good as you Tom. However, like all typical percussionists, they were very eager to show off. They also had four pianists playing on two pianos for this piece. Wasn't he a minimalist dude?
A minotaur (and the Gherkin in the background)
Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall
Regent's Park
Euston Road (before we moved buildings, this was one of my fave views of London, as it meant that I would be on my way home from a gruelling day at work)
Wolfmother rocking out at the Hammersmith Palais (1)
Wolfmother rocking out at the Hammersmith Palais (2)
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