Category: London

Since good weather was forecast again, we went to Battersea for a second time. It was really worth it.   When you walk around there, you inevitably bump into one of the security guards at some point. When I had set up my tripod, one of them approached me straight away and said that professional […]

In terms of light and weather, the best day of our stay.   However, it was very windy. In the morning, I went to my former employer Unilever in Blackfriars.   From St. Paul’s, we continued on to the government district.   After a good meal at the Sherlock Holmes Pub, we walked back to […]

At first it was still sunny, but that was to change in the course of the morning.   We arrived in Battersea under cloudy skies. This is where the old power station featured on Pink Floyd’s Animals album is located. The area has since been transformed into an upmarket residential neighbourhood, and the power station […]

After travelling by train, plane and underground, we arrived at the hotel at around 5 p.m. It wasn’t the best place, but it was adequate and quite cheap by London standards.   The hotel also has another special feature. On the ground floor is the Oodles snack bar. In 1888, this was the site of […]