sunflower

United Kingdom

3/Oct/94 - 7/Nov/94

13/Nov/94 - 24/Dec/94

2/Jan/95 - 10/Feb/95

12/Mar/95 - 25/Mar/95

21/May/95 - 3/Jun/95

4/Feb/96 - 10/Feb/96

7/May/96 - 18/May/96


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London | Macclesfield | Manchester | Stonehenge | Stratford-upon-Avon


London

221B Baker Street (where Sherlock Holmes lived) does not exist. There is no such address in Baker Street. However, here is the door which says 221B, on Baker Street near the address should appear if it existed. This is the entrance of Sherlock Holmes Museum, which I failed to enter (nobody answered) and has nothing to report.

The picture on the right shows a dog living with a homeless person near the national theatre. I asked him or her to pose for the picture and this is what I got.


Meanwhile at Trafalgar Square, the mermaid was annoyed by a pigeon.


At Natural History Museum, everyone has to wear a tiny sticker to show that he or she paid the fee. This pole (left) is located just the outside of the museum, where people tend to leave their stickers.

This public toilet (right) is located at the end of Leicester Square where I would often hang out (not in the toilet). There are a lot of cinemas around there, and there is also Comedy Store, my favourite comedy club in London. I'm a big fan of their improvised comedies on Sundays featuring stars from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"



At London Zoo, seagulls were the only liberated animals.



Macclesfield

I stayed in Macclesfield for four months. This picture on the left was taken near the flat I used to live. I was fascinated by this brilliant colour blue.



These cats and a car were found in the backyard of my flat.

Mini is my favourite car, and the only car I would consider driving if I really have to (I believe in public transportation).



Manchester

Manchester can be reached in 20 minutes by train from where I used to live. I visited the city on every weekend until I had a reason to go to London instead.

Manchester has some nice Chinese restaurants since it has a China Town. Yang Sing (hope I spelled it correctly), I think, is the best.



Stonehenge

My favourite joke on stonehenge is about it being small. It's so tiny that the English Heritage people would keep it in a box at night so that no wild animal can eat it.

But indeed, it seems to be smaller than some people would think.

Stonehenge Kitchen is a first food shop at the entrance to the Stonehenge site. Aside this, the souvenior shop, a postbox and some roads, no sign of today's civilization can be found near Stonehenge; it is well preserved. But it seems to me like an irony that the center of civilization thousand years ago now keeps today's civilization off.



Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon has been closely related to William Shakespeare. Don't ask me how close the relation has been. Probably he was born there or something1.

Anyway, this Mini I found there has eyelashes. Cute isn't it?



I enjoyed some beautiful sceneries there.



Notes

1 Yes.

The pictures in this page were taken with a Canon EOS 1000FN and ISO 100 colour transparency, colour negative and black and white films. Click on them to obtain full size JPEG pictures.


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Copyright © Kenji Saito, 1996