Snippets from London 2019

A stay in London is always very special.

There are favourite haunts to visit and new ones to discover.

We always stay in the Bloomsbury area near Russell Square.

It's quiet and yet not far at all from the centre.

This lovely red door with polished chrome is in the street of  our hotel.

Nearby is the British Museum

full of interesting things to see.

like this marvellous ship which is actually an animated clock

which was put on banquet tables as a decoration.

This is the style of the Bed and Breakfast Hotels in the area.

I've stayed in this one too.

I do love the colourful window boxes of flowers.

Sicilian Avenue is where we often have our main meal of the day

in an Italian restaurant with a good choice of the sort of food we like to eat.

On the other side of Russell Square Park

is the Kimpton Fitzroy Hotel

Very grand inside with lots of marble and beautiful mosaic work in the entrance.

To give you a better idea of the mosaic design.

We had delicious sherries here with my son when he joined us in London

for a couple of days.

Here is an image of Queen Victoria hanging in front of a shop selling collector's coins.

It's just opposite the British Museum.

I couldn't put up an image of Victoria without adding a statue of her husband,

Prince Albert.

A red, sight-seeing double-decker bus.

Another bus and a taxi near the restaurant we go to.

The taxis are no longer only black now.

Many of them are coloured, either plain or with designs and even advertisements.

Since most people use mobile phones these days, 

the well-known red telephone booths are being recycled.

This one offers on the spot smart phone repairs!

There's even an Insect Hotel in the nearby park.

I love that!

I'll stop here for today with some of the photos I took in London, but I shall continue with a few more very soon!