What do we like about London?

[M1104]

Aug 26, 2022 12:35:13 GMT ThinLizzy said:

Aug 25, 2022 19:25:50 GMT YX10FFN said:

I absolutely love London, and having seen quite few cities around the world I always come back to London. Maybe it's because it's "home." In my job I'm luck enough to see the sun set over the City of London, see the Natwest Tower and the Shard lit up for Christmas, the transformation of East London from industrial areas to the Olympic Park etc etc

An additional attraction is soon due

londonnewsonline.co.uk/lift-off-for-battersea-power-station-as-109-metre-glass-elevator-prepares-for-first-wave-of-tourists/

[ThinLizzy]

Aug 30, 2022 18:58:35 GMT M1104 said:

Aug 26, 2022 12:35:13 GMT ThinLizzy said:

I absolutely love London, and having seen quite few cities around the world I always come back to London. Maybe it's because it's "home." In my job I'm luck enough to see the sun set over the City of London, see the Natwest Tower and the Shard lit up for Christmas, the transformation of East London from industrial areas to the Olympic Park etc etc

An additional attraction is soon due

londonnewsonline.co.uk/lift-off-for-battersea-power-station-as-109-metre-glass-elevator-prepares-for-first-wave-of-tourists/

that'll give me another place to point at QB and say to my wife "I used to work there" instead of every time we pass Queenstown Road on the SWR

[MetrolineGA1511]

Maybe because I spent my teenage and early 20s living in London, I feel it has a timeless quality. When I visit Liverpool or Leeds for example, I can tell I am visiting. However, when I am in London I literally forget I no longer live there! Sure, I do remember my address and my way home, including which train I am booked on if applicable. It's just that, even when I am going somewhere in London for the first time in years (such as my trio of bus trips this year to Hounslow, Barnet and Woolwich after a gap averaging 7 years) it still feels like home turf. There is just the novelty of quite different buses from my previous visits!