Round The World and other travels
A frequent flyer's collection of trip diaries
2018: London
While London doesn't top my list of favourite
cities, it is easily my
most visited destination outside my native Scotland. I have
maintained a pattern of multiple visits per year throughout pretty
much my entire adult life. There is no mystery here: my apparent
infatuation stems first and foremost from the UK capital's undoubted
attractions and cosmopolitan buzz; add into the mix the city's sheer
scale and its ease of accessibility from most other parts of the
kingdom, and the proposition rapidly becomes irresistible.
Furthermore, I have never known London to be boring: after forty
years of regular visits, there are still sights that I have yet
to see. And the city's wide-ranging cultural scene contains a
sufficient degree of
changing elements to keep it an ever-reliable source of
entertainment and fulfilment. As Samuel Johnson famously said in the
18th century: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of
life.
My 2018 visits - or at least, the ones where I took photographs - were as follows:
| January | Mithraeum, Postal Museum & Mail Rail, St Katharine Docks | ||
| May | Hyde Park Corner - Westminster - Trafalgar Square | ||
| June | Grosvenor Square, Marble Arch, Piccadilly | ||
| December | Lower Regent Street at night |
