Some photos
from a short visit to London, more for reasons of friendship than for tourism,
however I could of course not resist from taking a few photos from some walks.
A little bit of gepgraphy before starting the small different tours.
Here at
first some from the Primrose Hill, just north of Regent’s park. It offers a
fantastic view over central London (and if you turn around of Belsize Park,
Hampstead…).
A walk
through Regent’s Park (the green dotted line).
Another
walk along part of the 19th century Regent’s Canal, maybe a third (yellow dotted line) of its total length. Once of great industrial importance, today
the canal offers especially wonderful walks, but also old or newly built places
to live in… unless you have opted to
live in one of the many barges still around.
Adjacent to
the Camden Lock you find an amazing market, formerly occupied by warehouses and
small industries, today extremely popular. Full of shops, stands… offering
crafts, food, bric-a-brac…
I had of
course to make a walk along the Thames, on the South Bank (the other dotted
yellow line). Here are some shots. Please notice that the Big Ben clock face was cleaned (last time was four years ago). The present
Globe Theatre from 1997 stands close to where the original (from 1599) stood.
The
highlight of my three-day visit was however the concert at the Royal Albert
Hall – Daniel Barenboim directing the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. To attend a
concert with Barenboim, co-founder of this orchestra, consisting of musicians
from Middle East countries, including Israel and Palestine, especially in today’s severe conflict
situation, is already an event. To be allowed do so in this legendary concert
hall, overbooked with an audience of some five or six thousands, with some five
or six “encores”, was of course something you will never forget! This concert was
part of the famous annual “BBC Proms”. Here are two "Proms" videos, one with Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra and one of
the “Last Night of the Proms” – second September Saturday.
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