To London or Not To London?

When the London bombings happened, I found I was taken aback in a way that renewed my sense of kinship with the city. I have worked in London off and on for many years, made friends for life and in many respects consider it my second hometown. I was further saddened to hear the Liverpool Street and Moorgate Stations were affected and am all too familiar with those stations as that was where I typically got off both at Merrill Lynch and DCR.

Prior to that, I had been planning to visit London this fall and a lot of my friends asked if I still intended to go. My answer is and still is: Absolutely. In fact, I feel more strongly than ever to go because despite my love/hate relationship with the city, I am recharged after even just a few hours in its walls.

One oddity is that I never really took any pictures in London. It seems weird and utterly uncool to wander about London with a camera but I found these two that someone else took and I really enjoy them, possibly because pictures of me in London is so rare.

This one is of Neil and I in a London cab. Either Lisa or Coco took it and I believe it was taken while cruising down High Street Kensington.



This next one is of Coco, me and Neil at Piccadilly Circus taken the same day I suspect. Either that or we weren't doing much laundry ;-)



Finally, this one was taken in Hyde Park by my friend Kathy (no, not Evil Kathy, but Crazy Kathy)..