I love reading travel posts about London, because it is my love and it's always fun to discover new places. Therefore I find it a bit irritating when people headline with "Places in London you MUST Visit" with all the obvious choices: The London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace etc. I think most people visiting London [...]
Tag: east end
The Novo Cemetery – expired Polaroid film
Some universities boast a stunning lake, a church, or a library used as Dumbledore's office. At Queen Mary, University of London, we have a cemetery. It is actually interesting: it is a Grade II listed Jewish cemetery, and the east end of London is famous for its rich Jewish cultural heritage as well as its hipsters [...]
Columbia Road Flower Market
Sundays are sleepy days: less traffic on the roads; offices are empty; usually I'm snoozing until it's nearly noon. But certain streets that boast famous London markets are bustling with crowds, stalls and sellers shouting at the top of their voices. Today I visited Columbia Road Flower Market for the first time in my life. I [...]
A Few shots of East London
Using *just* expired film (my bad) the colours didn't develop fully, but to me it gives it a vintage, or even timeless, feel to the photo, which I always find to be a fun quality of using a Polaroid camera. (This one looks better in real life I swear, makes me think I need to find a [...]
View of Canary Wharf, London
Taken on 11/01/15 on my Nikon D3200
London: A Melting Pot of Style
Under no circumstances could I be considered a 'fashionista', or someone who oozes style and is always two steps ahead of the fashion pack. Being a student on a budget my wardrobe consists mostly of Primark, accompanied by cheap market finds or what I found when spending too long on eBay. It ranges from band [...]
