London. A city of diversity. Filled with culture and art of the world. Double decker buses rule the surface, the tube trains rule the underground, and pedestrians have no rights.
A reunion with a friend I’ve known for thirteen years brought me to this city. A great week of adventurous times and amazing hospitality was the perfect beginning. Eating fish & chips along the Thames. Watching a typical day of reason at the House of Commons. Tasting the worldly cuisines of India, Japan & China with a London twist. Changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. Drinking the locally brewed ales in dark, yet lively pubs. Staying out until the sun comes up with old & new friends. 
Just walking the streets of London. Beauty is found. Little Venice, Camden, Regents Park, Hyde Park, Kensington, Notting Hill, Soho, St. James Park, Chelsea, Carnaby Street. Listening to the languages being spoken. Hearing all the different accents. All of them creating harmonious sound drowning out the traffic noise. Tourists crowd the sidewalks and suits crowd the parks. Locals fill the pubs and restaurants daily, creating a city life with no equal.
Discovering all the art in London could take a lifetime. A few of my favorites this time... A small Banksy exhibit in South Kensington, Gerhard Richter photography and a Jason Brooks portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, Picasso at the National Gallery, Pollock at the Tate Modern
and Middle Eastern contemporary art at the Saatchi Gallery. All of them intriguing, each of them distant from each other on the art spectrum.
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