London Still Rocks!

On Friday, I was back with  Laurence Summers  and the 45+ Not Grumpy Old Londoners , yet again - couldn't resist a walk around  Glorious and Grimy Gray's Inn Road ! Second walk he's had recently around where I lived - up to about a month ago! Timing, eh? There was, as usual, a train strike - which didn't really affect me in getting to the walk. Mind you, most of the chaos around King's Cross , where we met, was caused by a Harry Potter event . And it was lovely to see people - small and large - in the cloaks, brandishing wands.. why, there was even a stall selling the beer that apparently features in the books ! The strikers must have felt a bit upstaged: For breakfast, I grabbed the last salmon sandwich from Pret - and so off down the road I've travelled on so often, but missed so much on! Such as this fascinating house, owned by an advertising dynasty: You won't believe it - but this was named for an archeological find at the site! I've been in The W...

Today - the advantage of unemployment, I can go on weekday walks with  Laurence Summers  and the  45+ Not Grumpy Old Londoners ! This one, he can't do on weekends anyway - it was  The Labyrinth of the Law Courts Walking Tour , and - predictably - full up. Amid dire predictions of possible rain in the afternoon, I bravely set out without a hood. I could walk there - and  Google Maps sent me down an interesting backstreet , ironically previewing the walk: At this stage, it was lovely and sunny: It's been a while since I was last on one of these walks at all, and a lot longer since I was on a weekday one - saw some folks I haven't seen in an age! Which was lovely. And in due course we set off.. not into the actual courthouse , but using it as a starting point to meander through the hidden alleyways of the Inns of Court . Not, however, before being told that the architect of the Royal Courts of Justice modelled it on the cathedral he always wanted to build! Well...