After a few days of bewilderment, I'm beginning to acclimate to the climate and food in London. The climate is
pretty cool and very variable: rain, hail and then the sun comes back in a few minutes. Often pulls the wind, fortunately, because in the less ventilated smog is worthy of Milan.
The food is for me the real rock beginning of each trip: after some tests, now I have chosen the Pret-a-manger where the stopping point when I can not walk anymore and I need coffee (American ) to heat and a stool to rest.
Trafalgar Square under the usual sky multi mBeo London
Last Friday I was so rincitrullita from travel and climate change which, after having taken a nice pint of cappuccino (or latte that with a little 'foam that passes here as cappuccino;), I'm confused with packs and I've been slapped in the salt instead of sugar, realizing only after a while ', since the foam had slowed down the' flavor '... BLEAAAAAH!
Cappuccino Salt
Here, as in my previous trips, my preferred means for exploring the surrounding areas are legs and feet, immediately followed the bus, and only recently, from the metro. The "tube" London can not stand it, every time I have to use the metro I get a headache: it is too narrow and claustrophobic, the subway in Milan comparison is imperial and airy. Often, too - and always out, and then uphill - there are no escalators, ramps and ramps make it touches the stairs, stumbling along with a suitcase between tourists and the jostling of a hurry and can not run.
London Buses, however, I like very much. They cost much less than the metro, the races are quite frequent and, above all, is a double decker, they have two floors! Scarrozza be the middle of the chaotic traffic by sitting in a pigeon sitting watching the facades of buildings, signs weird, columns surmounted by dragons, the sky Cloudy in contrast with the white marble of the Cathedral of St. Paul is very nice!
London by bus
Some of the activities these days, visit museums and exhibitions of sculpture and go to the pucca Nose Art Supplies stores.
My favorite shop, so far, is the Cass Art, Charing Cross sells a very good price a good choice of colors, sketchbook, pencils and crayons. For paper I visited an interesting shop in the vicinity of the British Museum, where I bought sheets Zerkall German major. Them to experiment with new moku hanga prints and drawing.
Cass Art supplies at Charing Cross, near the National Portrait Museum
I then visited a beautiful Henry Moore exhibition at the Tate Britain: some of my doubts about my work in clay has found some answers in front of the magnificent work of Moore, especially in his drawings. The Tate Britain also houses a remarkable collection of paintings by British or have worked in Britain, most notably the group of Pre-Raphaelites and the works of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent.
Advertising electoral opposite the Tate Britain
The rest of the time to draw and pass it around, not always with a goal. More I did not understand if I like London, especially when you compare it to Tokyo and millemila things I could do there, or in New York and his energy.
Pending assessments more articulate, more they get, I like to observe how the Italian and maccheronizzato being exploited by the British. In the restaurant, here in London things Italian taxis a lot.
There are restaurants, coffee chain ("Black Coffee" for example), pizza, ice cream parlors "Italian", but not always all that glitters italics. For example, at Tesco supermarket are the famigeratissimi "Macaroni cheese" Findus brand: an English version of "four jumps in the pan" for a dish that does not exist in Italy.
Or at chain restaurants-cafes "Fresh Italy" you can find the typical Italian porridge, to choose from and customize to your liking. Not to mention Starbucks, which on paper napkins urges customers who were in need of information "to ask your bartender." I did not know that they were now officially committed to Starbucks baristas!
The number (singular or plural) is the Italian word for real bastard Anglophones: here "sandwich" is said only in the plural, "pizza" only in the singular, "salami" only in the plural. When I first arrived, I entered a coffee chain Subway and I was afraid to ask how the 'italian sandwich "that was in the menu on the display behind the speaker: in front of his composition at the triple sausage (salami, pepperoni and ham ", in which the salami is salami, pepperoni is a kind of sausage and ham is by no prosciutto Italic English), I opted for a chicken tikka masala sandwiches and good night to the bucket!
And I thought that the top of the twisting of the language had reached Japan, with its japlish versions of English words! The challenge of "sandwiches with salami" and "Dizunirando" (Disneyland in japlish) is all to play!, Even if the race I would also put the name of the shop of glasses close to home in Milan, which was called " Eyes Cream "... is called for, perhaps because of the name he had, has recently closed ...
Russel square
Here in London we live in the City, just two-steps-two from the Monument, a column of 22 meters a reminder of the Fire of London in 1666. It seems a prestigious location, it probably is too bad that all six in the evening, all, the premises are now closed, Starbucks, Pret-a-Manger, EAT, Yoh-Sushi, all closed, so if you want to dine or you take a stroll along the Thames in search of some pubs that sells fish and chips, or go to the Tesco supermarket on the corner and you ugly Grabbi Macaroni cheese with a nice slap in the microwave. I suppose the night life takes place not from these parts (there's a chaotic day life), however, be dislodged at 9:30 p.m. local unit makes a lot of nice open near London snoring! Soon this blog will make
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