Soho
Friday 07/20/2007 7:27 PM (In the United Kingdom: Saturday 07/21/2007 12:27 AM)
I went down to Soho tonight to check out some shops I'd read about, but it turns out most of them were closed. On my way there, I stopped by three different pub/restaurants, looking for fish & chips, but none of them served food on Friday evenings (???). All was not lost, though: I had a grand stroll through Soho and took lots of pictures along the way:
The building closest to you in this picture is Liberty House, a department store, which was not closed, but looked too pricey for my tastes, so I settled for photos of the outside.
This is where I was headed: Carnaby Street. It's a "walking mall," which is why everyone is walking down the middle of the street. Unfortunately, I arrived at 7:10, and the shops close at 7.
This is a clock at Kingly Street and Great Marlborough Street. So what, right? Here's what: this is the inscription below the clock:
Moments later, I passed this bar:
I took these as signs (ok -- maybe a little pun intended there) to shake myself free of any frustration over arriving moments after what I came for closed for the day, and I decided to explore -- you know, so as not to anything do in vain.
I found this tile mosaic, which will serve as this blog's Public Art Example #2. I found that the city has posted great works of art in public places all over London this summer, like the one below (The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger):
Yes, that's garbage piled up beneath it -- I think it makes the photo of the print of the painting into a whole other piece of art, don't you? (And this would be Public Art Example #3, in case you're keeping track.)
I found these music stores, all within two blocks of each other on Berwick Street, though they were closed, too:
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There is more to the evening than this, but I'm posting it in the next entry, so as not to stray too far from my title for this one.
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