A trip on the London Eye!

In me time in this fair city I seen a few sights alright...

A thousand faces passing by, buildings old and new touching the sky, parks of green, clouds of grey, overcoats and umbrellas, chain store coffee and cocktail bars... monsoon rain, autumnal leaves and humid sunshine...

Ok, ok, I'll stop now.

The best thing about the London Eye is you forget all that. Rising above the city you forget the complexities, the rush, the grind. Instead you see a beautifully intricate land sprawling beneath you, like its a load of lego pieces clipped together. Up there, from the sky, London looks like an artwork, like a model of a city...














Of course before you even get on you have to make it into your capsule. Not the easiest of tasks, I maintain, for they are moving at the time, and the Scribbler can be a clumsy fellow.














Then you've also got to look out for the shifty types hanging around at the sides...

Apologies Dad... you do look shifty in this snap though..!














There's always that thing when you're on a tourist attraction that you want to prove you were there somehow. Just like everyone else, us Scribblers dashed around getting pictures of ourselves from every which angle we could.

The real attraction on the Eye isn't the capsules that slowly float around... it's the city you look out onto that provides the backdrop to your snaps... and here's Eddie proving just that..!














A model boat..? Or maybe a lego one...















I thoroughly recommend the view from London's Eye. It ain't a bad city after all.

Even when you return to the thousand faces, the sweaty tube, sweet wrappers and scrap newspapers, Scientology booths... it's all part of the same thing after all. London. It is what it is!