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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
London for the visitor, for free

Covent Garden, Central London, on a hot August afternoon. London is teeming with visitors, and considering that I was working in the Soho section of the West End, and staying (literally) in the shadow of the London Eye on the South Bank, I shouldn't have been surprised at the crowds. This first picture is Covent Garden, the old fruit and vegetable market which is now a great indoor / outdoor venue during the day for performers, music, eating and drinking and souvenir stalls.



Admiralty Arch - just across from Trafalgar Square - guards the entrance to the Mall - the driveway up to the Queen's home at Buckingham Palace. In the early evening, tired civil servants from their offices in Whitehall (I was one once!) make their way across to Charing Cross and Waterloo stations for the commute home.


London's Waterloo Railway Station is the busiest in the country, with over 88 million journeys starting or ending there last year. The great sweep of the concourse, dating from the 1920s when a series of other stationlets on the site was swept away, is impressive - spoiled only by the white elephant of the Eurostar terminal, now abandoned in favour of St Pancras.


The Golden Jubilee Bridges. As a child, I used to cross Hunderford Bridge on this site - a narrow walkway attached to the railway viaduct that shook in a most comforting way when a train went across; I guess that the separate jubillee bridges, built to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubillee, are necessary for modern crowds but somehow I hanker after old times. In this picture, a visitor takes in the sights and sound of the river Thames, and the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank.


Embankment Gardens. Running alongside the Thames in this area are the Embankment Gardens - and indeed London has a suprising amount of green. At the end of the day, those commuters who are not in a rush to get home mingle with the tourists and vagrants, and some steal an illicit walk hand in hand with their office girlfriends before heading off home to the wife.


Ands where better to catch up on office gossip than the Cafe outside the Festival Hall? The sun is lovely, the company less formal than it was at the office desk an hour or two back, and the trains to Sevenoaks and Guildford, to Chessington and Dartford, will be much more comfortable at 7:30 than at 5:30!

And yet, even amongst this hussle and bussle there are quiet places and lovely architecture to admires - in this case a Georgian Crescent who's name I don't know just off Northumberland avenue. A hundred yards to the left is the river Thames. A hundred yard to the right is Trafalgar Square. Behind me is Charing Cross and the Stand and in front of me, Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament - and let there is this little sea of quiet. And London has a lot of spots like that!



Let me finish with a view in St. James Park, along the lake and up to Buckingham Palace. Again, the crowds are absent; in this case an early morning picture taken as I walked up from my hotel, past parliament and looped around Horseguard's parade before heading through the park, up the Duke of York steps to Lower Regent Street, Regent Street, and Oxford Circus.

And what did it cost me to take in these sights and scenes? Nothing - the parks and bridges and roads are all public and toll free. Truely, I wouldn't want to live in London but I love to spend an hour or two in the City from time to time.
(written 2008-08-09)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Z201 - Holidays and Business Trips
  [65] Ireland - (2004-09-27)
  [81] Caf[83][c2]á keyboards - (2004-10-10)
  [368] Vacation Week - (2005-07-04)
  [370] From Iceland - (2005-07-06)
  [373] Vik, Iceland to Melksham, England - (2005-07-10)
  [374] Instant availability - (2005-07-11)
  [420] Towards Tebay - (2005-08-20)
  [518] Passport office - a much improved system - (2005-12-05)
  [548] San Francisco - (2005-12-30)
  [620] Familiar names, close to home - (2006-02-23)
  [684] Staying in the country - (2006-04-13)
  [878] Easy criteria to meet - (2006-09-25)
  [1004] Old dog, old tricks - (2006-12-22)
  [1025] Tomorrow's keywords - London, Training, Course, PHP, Ruby. - (2007-01-08)
  [1120] 1200 miles in 3 days - (2007-03-28)
  [1143] A course in Helsinki - (2007-04-11)
  [1150] Helsinki - what comes naturally - (2007-04-15)
  [1231] Sur le Continent - (2007-06-13)
  [1291] Day trip to Weymouth - (2007-08-05)
  [1293] Weymouth - Sunny Summer Sunday afternoon - (2007-08-07)
  [1299] In the USA for a few days - (2007-08-11)
  [1308] Good to be home - (2007-08-18)
  [1454] From Sunday to Monday, from Melksham to the Balkans - (2007-12-03)
  [1457] A day in Ljubljana - (2007-12-04)
  [1657] Farewell, Newcastle to Stavanger, Haugsund and Bergen - (2008-05-29)
  [1740] Vertical London - (2008-08-06)
  [1868] Liverpool - a friendly city - (2008-11-03)
  [1992] A good time to travel - (2009-01-14)
  [2030] The final step to being British - (2009-02-07)
  [2090] Melksham to Georgia - (2009-03-19)
  [2098] A room without a view - (2009-03-22)
  [2100] Visiting Family - (2009-03-23)
  [2101] A B C D of GA and TN - (2009-03-23)
  [2198] On the road, at a Service area thats a cut above the others - (2009-05-25)
  [2200] England, Scotland, Northern Ireland - (2009-05-26)
  [2208] A beautiful coastline - (2009-05-30)
  [2265] A chance to do the tourist thing - (2009-07-01)
  [2269] Sipping at York - (2009-07-05)
  [2306] Melksham to Mexico for the week - (2009-07-27)
  [2313] Seeing Guadalajara - a first glimpse downtown - (2009-08-01)
  [2469] Beyond the Pale - (2009-10-22)
  [2759] Touching base - (2010-05-10)
  [2796] Sunday - waiting for the ferry. - (2010-06-06)
  [2797] Sur la T.G.V. - (2010-06-07)
  [2803] Travelling across Europe - (2010-06-12)
  [3300] Wildlife and other pictures from holiday - (2011-05-24)
  [3303] Flying tonight - (2011-05-26)
  [3306] Photogenic Place - (2011-05-28)
  [3321] Travelling around - (2011-06-09)
  [3345] Cruising - (2011-07-04)
  [3346] Gibraltar - said to have a few residents less than Chippenham - (2011-07-05)
  [3372] Wearing the new London uniform - (2011-07-28)
  [3381] Report - day trip from Swindon / Chippenham / Melksham to Weymouth - (2011-08-07)
  [3681] Kicking up a stink, the Victorian way? - (2012-04-02)
  [3737] Postcards from Barmouth - (2012-05-20)
  [3742] Dysenni Valley, and nearby - (2012-05-24)
  [3853] Blanford Forum, Dorset - (2012-09-01)
  [3998] Travelogue - from the Netherlands to London via Hook and Harwich - (2013-02-07)
  [4126] Where are we now? On holiday! - (2013-06-29)
  [4215] Great beauty, but great natural danger - (2013-11-26)
  [4249] An evening in Glasgow - (2014-03-19)
  [4433] Different views of a Welsh Valley - but headed home - (2015-02-20)
  [4471] Leopardstown to Rosslare by train - (2015-04-23)
  [4472] Rosslare to Fishguard - foot passenger on the ferry - (2015-04-24)
  [4473] Fishguard to Melksham - third part of Dublin journey - (2015-04-25)
  [4478] Home in Melksham to Gatwick Airport - easy by public transport - (2015-04-29)
  [4513] Yesterday, Weymouth - (2015-08-02)
  [4643] From last July (2015) - (2016-02-08)
  [4728] Visiting Los Alamitos Bay Yacht Club - (2016-11-23)
  [4731] To Oceanside and San Clemente Pier - (2016-11-23)


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