| London 2008 - Leicester Square, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus |
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Finally I succeeded getting to London after
my one day delay in Salzburg. After arriving
late on May 9, 2008, I got a good night's
sleep at the Zetter Hotel, a hip boutique
hotel in the Clerkenwell area. The next day,
after a delicious breakfast, my travel
partner Andrea and I got going early to start
our discoveries. We walked past historic
medieval St. John's Gate and admired the
Victorian era Smithfield Market. From here I
took my first ride on the Tube (London's
famous subway system) to the historic St.
Pancras Railway Station which is now the
terminal for the Eurostar Trains, connecting
London with the Continent. We then walked
over to neighbourhing King's Cross Railway
Station where we checked out Platform 9 3/4
of Harry Potter fame.
Our next destination was the Portobello
Market, an ecclectic mix of fresh vegetables,
fruit, baked goods, enticing aromas from all
sorts of delicious freshly made street food,
funky clothes, furs and antiques. After our
interview with Michael Williams, one of the
organizers of the Notting Hill Carnival (a
Caribbean-style carnival and Europe's biggest
street party) we walked through the serene
streets of Notting Hill and Kensington before
we embarked on a brief tour of Little Beirut,
a heavily middle-Eastern influenced area on
Edgeware Road.
A tube ride later we arrived at Hyde Park
Corner where to my disappointment nobody was
giving any speeches or ranting about
anything. Only two older gentlemen were
sitting on two soap boxes and taking a rest,
maybe exhausted from an earlier discourse.
After a brief stroll through Hyde Park, which
was full on sun worshippers, we tubed it to
London's Financial District where we checked
out various classicist bank and stock
exchange buildings, the stunning Victorian
era Leadenhall Market, the Lloyds Building, a
postmodernist masterpiece by Richard Rogers,
which has all the piping on the outside, and
the Gherkin, the famous cucumber shaped Swiss
Re building. Our walk continued to another
historic train station: the Liverpool Street
Railway Station from where we took a train to
Walthamstow Village to do an interview with
the owner of Eat 17, a restaurant and deli
that serves really cool waffles (among many
other things), where I had a supremely
delicious spinach risotto.
Our final stop for the day was a walk around
Leiceister Square that included London's
Theatre District, Chinatown and hustling and
bustling Piccadilly Square. I simply couldn't
believe how packed the streets of London's
entertainment area were, we could hardly
walk...
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| London 2008 - Leicester Square, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus |
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Finally I succeeded getting to London after
my one day delay in Salzburg. After arriving
late on May 9, 2008, I got a good night's
sleep at the Zetter Hotel, a hip boutique
hotel in the Clerkenwell area. The next day,
after a delicious breakfast, my travel
partner Andrea and I got going early to start
our discoveries. We walked past historic
medieval St. John's Gate and admired the
Victorian era Smithfield Market. From here I
took my first ride on the Tube (London's
famous subway system) to the historic St.
Pancras Railway Station which is now the
terminal for the Eurostar Trains, connecting
London with the Continent. We then walked
over to neighbourhing King's Cross Railway
Station where we checked out Platform 9 3/4
of Harry Potter fame.
Our next destination was the Portobello
Market, an ecclectic mix of fresh vegetables,
fruit, baked goods, enticing aromas from all
sorts of delicious freshly made street food,
funky clothes, furs and antiques. After our
interview with Michael Williams, one of the
organizers of the Notting Hill Carnival (a
Caribbean-style carnival and Europe's biggest
street party) we walked through the serene
streets of Notting Hill and Kensington before
we embarked on a brief tour of Little Beirut,
a heavily middle-Eastern influenced area on
Edgeware Road.
A tube ride later we arrived at Hyde Park
Corner where to my disappointment nobody was
giving any speeches or ranting about
anything. Only two older gentlemen were
sitting on two soap boxes and taking a rest,
maybe exhausted from an earlier discourse.
After a brief stroll through Hyde Park, which
was full on sun worshippers, we tubed it to
London's Financial District where we checked
out various classicist bank and stock
exchange buildings, the stunning Victorian
era Leadenhall Market, the Lloyds Building, a
postmodernist masterpiece by Richard Rogers,
which has all the piping on the outside, and
the Gherkin, the famous cucumber shaped Swiss
Re building. Our walk continued to another
historic train station: the Liverpool Street
Railway Station from where we took a train to
Walthamstow Village to do an interview with
the owner of Eat 17, a restaurant and deli
that serves really cool waffles (among many
other things), where I had a supremely
delicious spinach risotto.
Our final stop for the day was a walk around
Leiceister Square that included London's
Theatre District, Chinatown and hustling and
bustling Piccadilly Square. I simply couldn't
believe how packed the streets of London's
entertainment area were, we could hardly
walk...
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| Dance by Iskon member at Leicester square in London |
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I have seen these ISKON devotees many times
in kolkata . But watching them dancing on
the roads in London was a totally different
experience . I felt at home . As they move on
, different kind of people join them . Girls
in mini skirt going to Pub , guys with beer
bottle , children with their parents ... all
kinds of people were submerged in the tune
and rhythm of Hare Krishna Hare Krishna ..
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare .. Hare Ram Hare
Ram.. Ram Ram Hare Hare ..
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| A tour of all Leicester Square Film star Handprint plaques |
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At the weekend I was at Leicester Square in
London and I thought I would make a simple
video showing all of the floor mounted film
star handprint plaques that surround
Leicester Square.
I uploaded this video last week but then
spotted that I had missed 3 plaques out of
the video so decided to remove the original
video and remake it, here it is.
This video features 50 plaques, 40 of which
are filmstars handprints.
I took photographs of the following plaques.
Going in a anti-clockwise direction starting
at the Swiss Corner/Crest of London corner of
Leicester Square...
MGM, Bruce Willis, Ralph Fiennes, Sir Ian
McKellen, 20th Century Fox, Kate Beckinsale,
Sylvester Stallone, Billy Crystal, Paramount
statue, Charlton Heston
Sir John Mills, British Film Year 1985,
Omar Sharif, Alan Bates, Dame Anna Neagle,
Robert Carlyle, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Nigel
Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Rank, Michael Caine,
Ben Kingsley, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Maggie
Smith, Jeremy Irons,
Arnold Schwarznegger, Sir Sean Connery,
Pierce Brosnan, Walt Disney, Stephen Fry,
Helena Bonham-Carter, Richard E Grant, Hugh
Grant, Colin Firth, Sir Richard Attenborough,
Sigourney Weaver, Clint Eastwood, Warner
Brothers, Paul Hogan,
Universal, Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Kim
Novak, Michael Winner, Kate Winslet, Tom
Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Paramount, 1991
Street Improvements plaque.
I had to use the Perspective Correction and
crop tools in PaintShopPro 10 to get them all
looking the same and also to clone out all of
the chewing gum and Cigarette Buts, my god
what a mess !
Leicester Square is the centre of London's
cinema land and is the prime location in
London for major film premieres such as
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal
Skull.
To learn more about Leicester Square see here
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_Square
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Leicester Square Streaming Webcam :
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You can even use a great live streaming
webcam to see whats happening at Leicester
Square right now, This webcam has preset
views which change every 10 seconds around
the square. If there is a film premiere on
then you may even see a celebrity...
http://www.camvista.com/england/london/leices
tersquare.php3
There is also a static high resolution webcam
that updates every few seconds, this one
allows you to select the view (below the
image where it says 'Choose a view')
http://www.radissonedwardian.co.uk/leicester-
sq-webcam.html
For a Birds eye view of Leicester Square see
here :
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LM
LTCC&cp=skjk7rgzp70y&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&d
ir=0&alt=-1000&scene=15552477&phx=0&phy=0&phs
cl=1&encType=1
Hope you enjoy this simple video.
Please comment and rate.
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