What I like about London ...

Went for a walk yesterday lunchtime, as I often do, but took a few snaps on my camera-phone.

I love how in London you can go from this:

(Old dock pilings by the old Billingsgate)

To, just 300 feet or so to the left of the pilings, this:

(Some office block the other side of the old Billingsgate Fish Market)

Then there's this place, which whenever I see it reminds of the Little family house in 'Stuart Little':

I wonder how the two office blocks attached to the pub were built? Did the publician chain himself to the bar to ensure his pub wasn't knocked down?

That's what I like about this city, the old mixed into the new. The area of London where I work (Known as the 'Square Mile', because the area known as 'The City of London' is roughly a square mile ...) has 56 churches. 56 churches in one square mile ... And they're not new churches, the majority of them date from the 17th century (Yep my American buddies, we have churches older than your country ...) From my office, I can hit with a well directed tennis ball, three of them.

I've decided that over the course of 2009, I'm going to try and find and visit as many of the 56 I can, so be prepared for photos of churches, and no I really don't have anything better to do with my lunchtimes.