Rather than get ofp the train at St Pancras, I continued for another three stops to change at Blackfriars Bridge station (below), for this splendid view of the Thames and the City of London, with Tower Bridge in the distance, the Shard to the right.
Change at Blackfriars for the District Line and straight through to Ealing Broadway. Below: Haven Green, the Baptist church in the distance, a view that's quite Edwardian in atmosphere, modern traffic regardless. In a year or two, the CrossRail (Elizabeth Line) project will be complete, and this will make Ealing Broadway an even more important transport hub.
Below: St Stephen's church, converted to flats, again, that Edwardian feeling is there - when Ealing was rightly regarded as the Queen of the Suburbs.
Night falls on Ealing. Below: Mortimer Road
Below: Amherst Road by night.
Gallic touch in Ealing; a Citroen 2CV van on St Stephen's Road.
Flying back to Warsaw from Luton, afternoon sunshine brings out the vivid colours of the corporate logos. WizzAir flies four times a day to Warsaw, using Airbus A321s, capable of carrying 234 passengers.
Bonus shot, below: a shunter in the livery of Trakcja PRKiI at W-wa Okęcie station. As work is coming to an end here, these engines will become a historic sight.
This time two years ago:
With my father and brother in Derbyshire
This time five years ago:
In praise of Warsaw's trams
This time seven years ago:
Setting sun in the mountains
This time eight years ago:
That learning moment
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A magical photopassage of time and place beautifully framed ; brisk and airy and precise in its colourtone density.
Frater Pantone III
Mike,
"The Shard to the left..."? Well, please, IMHO "to the left" means a bit different contrary to that picture.
@ dr Marcin
Thanks! Duly corrected. I've always had left-right dyslexia (my son when small had up-down dyslexia - he'd say he's going upstairs while going downstairs and vice-versa).
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