Bank of the Thames

One of my favourite things about living in London is how easy it is to go out and do something I've never done before, even in an area I know pretty well.

On Sunday I went for a walk on the bank of the Thames!

Crishna and I were up in town for a wander and I noticed one of those people who goes down onto the banks of the Thames and makes big sand sculptures (he was making a horse), and there were some other people wandering about, so we decided to go down as well :D

As you can tell from the pictures we were coming up to Blackfriars Bridge on the South side of the river - in the photos you can see Unilever House, Sion Hall, the old City of London Girls' School building, and obviously St Paul's Cathedral, the NatWest building and the Gherkin.

I did pick up a few little shells as well :)

Phoenix Garden

A colleague told me about this place a while ago, and as we had a lovely sunny break in the rain on Wednesday I decided to go along to see what it was like.


The Phoenix Garden is a community garden in Covent Garden, just off Shaftesbury Avenue (it's on Stacey St - turn off next to the Odeon). It's a gorgeous quiet space with lots of flowers, a couple of ponds, plenty of benches and a LOT of insects. Watch out if you don't like flying stingy things; I know bees aren't going to sting me but aaaaaaaaargh they make me jump.


There's also other wildlife - the damselflies were particularly exciting to me - including a cat that was enjoying the sunshine.

I'd like to tell everyone to go (and pretty much the first email I sent the next day was telling people where it was) but then it would get crowded so...maybe don't all go at once?

And some of the flowers growing in the garden:

Website: http://www.thephoenixgarden.org/