i am preparing ten threads that i will post in august and september. this is the first.
KILGORE IN EUROPE :: Photo Schedule
01 -- LONDON (Part One)
02 -- PARIS (Part One)
03 -- ROME
04 -- MADRID (Part One)
05 -- PARIS (Part Two)
06 -- LISBON
07 -- MADRID (Part Two)
09 -- PARIS (Part Three)
10 -- LONDON (Part Three)
the photos in this series were taken by myself, except for those taken by mlle. laine, which are noted.
LONDON
part one
it's been pointed out before, but needs to be said again: london is vast. it is a los angeles linked by rail instead of highways, a world unto itself in a way that only a handful of cities are. our time in london was spent exploring the city from morning until night, walking until our feet hurt and taking breathers on the upper decks of buses as they wound their way through the city.
there were many things i enjoyed about london -- its feeling of completeness, the cultural diversity, the consistent, low-level urbanity spread across hundreds of square miles, never overly intense but always busy, human-scaled and cosy. the place's expense was a real turn-off, though. although we found extremely cheap accommodations, we spent more here just to feed ourselves -- at supermarkets and the cheapest restaurants we could find, no less -- than we spent in total in any other city. everything was prohibitively expensive. everything but books and beer, that is.
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