Places

London

I was born in London, as much London as one could Imagine. In the hospital that faces the houses of parliament on the south bank of the River Thames. Luckily growing up in a place full of many cultures, learning opportunities and things to do meant that the whole world seemed to be here, or want to be here. It gives a sense of importance, a sense of limitlessness that aren’t the norm in many other places.

Thanks to this there are so many people and experiences to speak of. Though London is such a well known place that there is probably no need to do so at length. This page is therefore peppered with a few images of sites that I get to see in my daily life walking around different parts of the city. The cultural, architectural and societal heritage is of immense value as a tourist and even more so as a resident of one of these many old villages and cities that have grown together into this huge megalopolis and administrative of of the Industrial revolution. The home of modernity.

I spoke about the opportunities that are afforded to those who live and work in London, something I became far more aware of after having spent time living in the north of England during my university years. Above is an image of me in the Financial Times in an article written after doing an internship with the Shell Step program. At University I would go to the library everyday to get a free copy of the Financial Times to read, it became and probably still is my favourite newspaper, hence the design of this site. Then moving back to London I read about the Shell Step internship program in the FT, worked in Borough, as stones throw from their office and got to see Boris Johnson, the mayor of London as he was then, cycling past every day on his way to city hall. The life you read about in the rest of the country becomes real when you live in London. Below are some images taken at various times and places walking around the city.

Writing

London has of course influenced a great deal of my own thinking and way of seeing the world. The city is prominent in my worldview and as a place for ideas, and a canvas. In my writing the stories Easy is about Brussels with London as a backdrop to contrast the new life against the old. The place for which the protagonist is homesick and yet no longer home in. Others include, Velvet, Whispers and My House at the Centre of the Universe.