alienisme

Tag: England

  • Zigzag over Thames

    Just to validate what I wrote here, here’s my take on this week’s photo challenge.     Some crazy planes flew over the Thames one day and I happened to be in the Southbank, by Tate Modern, looking up and found those random zigzag patterns over Blackfriars Bridge. Result: very pretty sunset.  

  • The Place I Would Like to Go Right Now

    If I could choose where I would like to be transported to, I would definitely choose London. It may sound crazy and obsessive, but I still dream of going back there on a daily basis.

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

    When I saw this week‘s challenge, I was excited almost immediately. It is about reflection and I just happen to have plenty of pictures that portray reflections (this post even featured a photo of reflections). Here’s one of them. This is my take on Birmigham Canal.

  • Library

    Once I was asked, in one of my English lessons, what paradise would look like for me My answer was, and I still remember it until now, “Paradise would look like a place filled with any book you could ever think of, any book you want to read, and you are free to read there…

  • Heat Wave

    I love England in a heat wave. It’s a different country. All the rules change. … You know what I mean. People are more at ease – a couple of days’ sunshine and we become Italians. … Robbie Turner in Atonement by Ian McEwan (p. 128)