london

This is an unfinished note I wrote in london:london has a lot to offer: it's vibrant and diverse, it is green, the streets are wide, the architecture is brilliant. but it's also gloomy. you don't see the sun for more than 20 minutes every day. in some ways it's very similar to new york: interesting people, a lot of culture and a lot of shopping. it also reminds me of washington, dc. when you step out of downtown, the houses and the streets and the tranquility of the space is very much like dc. people are very polite and they are not as much in rush as new yorkes, but they don't look as boring as washingtonians. they say "lovely" and "brilliant" a whole lot, and they think americans use "awesome" very inappropriately. i have to say, it was easter weekend though, and i guess holidays make everyone nicer than usual.

night life in soho is much like the west village: ton of people loitering in front of the bars, and there are many many gay bars, and of course every guy who looks good is probably gay. so not much luck for the ladies. i went to a lesbian bar so that i won't feel the lack of attention, but there weren't many lesbians around, and the dj who was interestingly iranian, totally sucked.

i really liked big ben. the most interesting part of that building is the details of the gothic architecture. it feels like there is a lot of energy stored in the carvings of the facade. but i also just liked the huge clock. thames is not that impressive...i find hudson more interesting, less grey and polluted.

we went to suffolk one day to have the best fish and chips in england, as my hosts suggested. the scenery is very interesting; the river, the sky, the meadow and the sheep are almost the same color: a greenish grey...you feel you are senile aof what you might not like but must take...the fish and chips was good, not that I have a high standard of fish and chips cause I,ve never had it before i went to london, but the batter was light and fluffy and the fish moist. i can't give much praise to the fries, or chips, cause they were not that great. i think pommes frites in the east village does a better job.