London 2018

Hello!

I've decided to start my blog with a brief overview of my trip to England. A trip that's been the icing on the cake of almost twenty years of teaching English and talking about London and its landmarks, the Royal Family, Received Pronunciation and so forth.

From the moment I became a teacher, I spent many years longing and waiting to have firsthand experience of what England, or at least, London was like. And that waiting came to an end on July 10th,2018

View from the London Eye

I'm sharing my view on the London I saw with a sloppy poem and some pictures.

The London I saw was...

The London...

Of driving on the left

Of double-deckers and cabs

Of pelican crossings and zigzag street lines

Of repurposed phone booths

Of walks by the Thames

And bicycle lights projecting green bikes

A colourful cab and a double-decker bus

The London eye and the London aquarium

A cycleway

The London...

Of the thousand accents

Of locals and foreigners

Of Strike-a-pose photographs at Buckingham gates

Of fish, chips and mushy peas

Of pints outside pubs

And the free museums and galleries just great

Buckingham Palace gates

A pub

The National Gallery

The London...

Of leafy railed squares

Of lakes, ponds and gardens

Of geraniums, squirrels, gulls, swans and geese

Of dogs seldom barking

Of ravens in the Tower

And Green Park & Hyde Park & 20p to pee!

Hyde Park

Hyde Park

Buckingham Palace flower beds

The Tower of London

"The Raven"

The London...

Of Camden and Greenwich

Of London Eye Rides

Of Trafalgar, Piccadilly, Bloomsbury and more

Of the Gherkin and the Shard

Of the Globe and the Abbey

And that, dear fellows, was the London I saw

Camden

Tower Bridge with iconic buildings in the backpround

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich

The Globe Theatre

Piccadilly Circus

Abbey Road

Piccadilly Circus

This was the London I saw!

This text was originally written in September 2018 in my first attempt to write a blog.