London Life

Saturday Snapshots #153

July 30, 2011

  Regents Canal towpath, London – October 2010   The Regent's Canal is a canal which links Limehouse Basin on the Thames to the Paddington branch of the Grand Union Canal in North London.  It provides many kilometres relatively tranquil towpath walking or cycling in the middle of a city, and some quintessentially London views [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #151

July 16, 2011

Tools of my trade – antique typewriter, Portobello Road London July 2011  Portobello Road Market, London, bills itself as the world's largest antique market and is definitely one of the best-known street markets in the world.  Although shops on the street are open every day, it's on Saturday when the market comes alive with street [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #147

June 18, 2011

Eiffel Tower detail – Paris, July 2006   It has been called "the tragic lamppost" and a "grande suppositaire".  It was designed and built in 15 months and stnds twice as tall as the Washington Memorial and the Great Pyramid of Cheops.  It featured in a Duran Duran music video and a James Bond movie. [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #140

April 30, 2011

  Royal Wedding, Hyde Park – April 2011 When I watched the 1981 Royal Wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana on a portable TV in a classroom in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, I would never have believed you if you told me that on the day their son got married, I would be living [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #138

April 16, 2011

  Field of Hope – April 2011 One of the first things about London that I fell in love with was the abundance of spring flowers – a real novelty for somebody from a climate so temperate that Spring and Autumn were seasons that happened to other people.  I remember in our first year in [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #129

February 12, 2011

  London calling - October 2010   This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – all previously featured  photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots compendium page.  Photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store and the gorgeous A3-size 2011 [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #116

November 13, 2010

 London Autumn leaves – November 2010 They always did say that the streets of London were paved with gold, and judging by this walkway outside my house they weren't far wrong ;-) This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – all previously featured  photographs can be viewed [...]

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