An Eye on London

The day started early - the only way to beat queues, school trips and catch parties. I was only the Eye just after 10. The day was clear and sunny in small patches, though once up on the Eye, sun and rain were chasing each other. The London Eye is a really unique experience, and worth ignoring slight feelings of vertigo to achieve. London seems at once very familiar and very new from this vantage.Since the trip
Only takes 30 minutes, there was much more day to fill. Over to London Bridge, where the outdoor Borough Market won over the Tate Modern, as the sun was out. Then I returned to Southwark Cathedral, for a closer look around. There are so many treasures and curiosities there.(I can hear the foxes below in the garden as I write). A trip down the line to West Ham
Was the start for about 40 of us on the Olympic Walk which took us to some new and some old parts of East London which were sites of the Olympic Games, ending with vista over thensite from the second floor of John Lewis in the Stratford shopping centre.