I took a walk this morning to my old work neighborhood. Had some good memories of the familiar sights along the way. Most of the same shops still occupy the High Street, which was nice to see. There is one major change though: The company sold off our office building a couple years ago and it is now being converted to flats!
The conversion has started, and it looks like some of the flats are occupied. Those balconies on the upper floors are new. Work is obviously continuing though.The company sign remains at the entrance though!
The rest of the day was spent taking a leisurely walk through Central London – one of my favorite things to do.
A certain Mews in Kensington was a regular stop during my trips into the city – because it houses two classic car dealers! And both are set up for excellent exterior viewing. It was fun to check out the changing inventory.A sad day – the ice skating rink at the Natural History Museum is being dismantled.
I finished the day across the river at the Tate Modern Museum, where I took a tour of their “Cities” exhibit.
I found this pretty interesting. It’s a set of 7 photographs from 1962 depicting the windows of a crowded train in Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. That was nearly 60 years ago, it’s even more extreme now!Time for a quick check of fuel prices! That works out to $6.28/gal. Yikes!
Tuesday, January 14 – London
I spent almost all of today at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Kind of weird, I know, but there’s so much to see! I started off taking in their “Cars” exhibit (of course), and followed that with two separate tours – one general and one of their theatre and entertainment area.
That is a GM concept car from the ’50s in the foreground, and in the background is an example of the world’s first motorcar – an 1888 Benz.In the foreground is a model of a Ford concept from the 50s that proposed power via a nuclear reactor. Didn’t quite come to fruition!I love this!
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So sad to see our old office sold and will never work in that building again. Such a terrible decision.
So sad to see our old office sold and will never work in that building again. Such a terrible decision.
Agree completely Ed!