Around Trafalgar Sqaure

To me Trafalgar Square is like the center of London. It helps me to use it as the reference point when planing a journey in London. There's lots of interesting sights there - like the National Gallery and Nelson's Column and it's near to other interesting places like Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden.

This little video clip shows the square from the area just in front of the gallery.


These photos show some of the sights in more detail. Included is the church St Martin in the Fields, the National Gallery and Big Ben in the distance.

St Martin in the Fields church.


National Gallery.


Big Ben.

Few days in London - Speakers' Corner.

I found some cheap flights on the web and decided to go to London for a few days. I had been there before - so it wasn't all new to me. I started my day by going to Hyde Park to see the famous Speakers' Corner.

It wasn't really what I was expecting to be honest. There were lots of 'religious' type people there, going on about what they believe and why they believe it. Here you can see a short video clip and some photos of what goes on there.

Watch out... thin ice

It is still very cold in Ireland, much like other places in Europe I believe. It's zero degrees Celsius here in Cork at the moment.

I know, I know it's worse in other places but we're not really used to it being so cold, so that in turn makes it even colder somehow??

The weather can make things look a lot different from their normal appearance. Here are some examples of what I've seen recently on my travels.

The pond was frozen over and as you can see, there are massive chunks of ice sitting on top of it. The little statue doesn't look to having a great time either.

New year, new name

Well, we've made it into 2010. To celebrate, a new title was called for and so "From Granada to Seville..." was picked.

If you want to know why, just leave a comment and I'll tell you.