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London, St. James Park

« London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present.

And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.»

Anna Quindlen,Imagined London: A Tour of the World´s Greatest Fictional City

St. James Park, 2010

London, Camden Town II

“London is a cluster of communities, great and small, famous and unsung; a city of contrasts, a congregation of diversity .”

Roy Porter

Camden Town, 08.10.2024

“London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.”

Peter Ackroyd

Camden Town, 08.10.2022

London, Piccadilly Circus

«Go where we may, rest where we will,

Eternal London haunts us still.»

Thomas Moore

Piccadilly Circus (1999 e 98.10.2022)

London, Little Venice

«A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London, if he has a comfortable income.»

George Bernard Shaw

Little Venice , (2010)

It´s Christmas Time! ... on the streets of London II

Regent Street, Dec.2019

"My visits to London always bring me cheer; I wish it were possible to bottle the atmosphere.

I would collect together all the sights and sounds, and surround myself with them, when I’m down..."

Angela Wybrow

Eu diria que é um vício ... algo que se entranha, que nos domina, que nos molda e aprisiona o coração para a vida inteira!...

It´s Christmas Time! ... on the streets of London I

Regent Street, Dec.2019

«You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.»

Samuel Johnson