Paris at random

Iconic Paris

The Opera House

Arc de Triumphe. A child of Napolean's reign.

Notre Dame

The louvre

Eiffel Tower

Paris la bel

The island, or something to that nature; the origins of the city along the Seine. Such beautiful canals. More cheese and rotissirie chicken than I could ever dream of. This could be the next city I live in. I have fallen in love with it!


Me and you know who, in the background. Holy tourists!! There's a restaurant located on one of the levels of this monster; imagine the price of that bill! Apparently, one has to book a reservation 2 months in advance.

Well, I guess we now know the origins of the city plan of Washington DC. I had some cheese and a capuccino in a cafe just around this area. The view was incredible.

The French know how to landscape; I offer my congratulations in that regard. The streets are wide and luciously green. That's the arc de Triumphe in the background.

Notre Dame along another canal. Notice the lines of people awaiting entry to the cathedral and the boat under the bridge. Tourists everywhere! No wonder the French have such a reputation for being rude. I'd be grumpy too.

Salisbury Hill & Stonehenge

Salisbury Cathedral (1300's)- you have to give credit where credit is do; way to go freemasons. The spire is over 400 feet tall, more than a third the height of the empire state building. A mamouth of a structrue considering that nothing else in the city rises above 3 stories. Certainly, a calm city and very traditional. It was nice to see the country again, which looked much like home except, in place of cows there were sheep, everywhere.

My bed - The sign at the Prancing Pony! Very cool and very old. I thought the place was going to fall down on top of me.

Those wily English people. Who are they fooling?

No introduction needed! Not bad that in order to see one of the seven medieval wonders in the world, you only have to pay $10. Bloody capitalism! I've never been surrounded by so many Americans in my life, which was nice. The sun mercifully came out after a couple hours of rain and grey as you can see in the below picture.

What a horrible day at the start; but my charming good looks made the sun come out, eventually,

Snow? and Architecture

Snow in London? 9 inches of snow in London? Of course; the largest snow storm in some one hundred years had to occur during my stay. It reminded me of good ol' Buffalo.

This is a street in Pimlico, of London; I was impressed by the very elegant white facades of all the apartment complex's/houses. It was surreal to see so much white everywhere. Although, I perfer my dirty brick house.

The Lloyd's building (on the right) designed by Richard Rogers. Certainly, an industrial design if I've ever seen one.

London's famous Gherkin Building by Sir Norman Foster - my favorite building in the city. Allegedly, it uses approximately 40 percent less energy than other tower in the city. The darkened glass is actually an atrium space that spirals around the building; and effectively offers an interior view, up or down the building. Absolutely ingenious.

St. Paul's & Brit Museum

Architect Sir Christopher Wren's St. Paul Cathedral. Not impressed - a little too formal and cold (plus it's got nothing on St. Patrick's of NYC).

Front entrance to St. Paul's.

The British Museum's Rosetta Stone. There's just too much going on in this place but I figured this was an important picture.

The Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Trajan?? Actually I have no idea who the other guy is. I don't see the resemblence between this guy and the guy from Gladiator.

Out of a nationalistic pride, I had to include this picture. It's always nice to find a small piece of home in a foreign country. "American Recipe;" extra grease?

Brixton Home

Pulross Road, my road, with some cool towers in the background (no, not central london, I'm not that close.) Check out that speed bump at the bottom - these are placed at every single intersection. It's a good thing I don't have a car, I'd be one angry person.


The bedroom, half decorated and kinda bare. But i'm eagerly working on that (budget permitting).

The greatest desk and chair that ever was (yes I designed/built this and I'm damn proud of it too). Although the chair is not really comfortable and the desk sort of wabbles. My tribute to the De Stijl movement and Architect Gerrit Reitveld.

I have to make a painting station where ever I live. It's just in my blood. Check out that little table thing; yep, mine design once again. But also once again - a little wabbly but she'll hold.

One half of our living room, I can't complain. It really is comfortable. But man do those wood floors get dirty and in a rush too - that's only natural when there are 6 people cramming into a single space.