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And you will go to Mykonos
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

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When I’m walking brother don’t you forget
It ain’t often that you’ll ever find a friend

— Mykonos - Fleet Foxes

Destroying Euston Arch

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Strictly Rule - Vetiver

Old London Bridge

Is food in the UK (London) expensive or cheap in comparison to the AUD?

Total Basket as pictured £27.78. ( 57.24 AUD or 39.71 USD )

- For these calculations, I’m using today’s xe.com rates, 1GBP = 2.06AUD = 1.42USD.

- Strong attempt was made to select the best value (mostly the cheapest) looking brand or option where possible at a large London Waitrose (Barbican), on the 29th March 2009.

- I offer no opinion on the quality of purchased goods one way or another when compared to Australian produced goods, - but I will say all the above food I will enjoy eating!

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6 Eggs £1.72 ( 3.54 AUD )

Houmous 200g £0.89 ( 1.83 AUD )

Ready to eat Salad 200g £1.99 ( 4.10 AUD )

Vine Tomatoes 400g £2.49 ( 5.12 AUD )

Jarlsberg cheese 200g £2.36 ( 4.86 AUD )

Long Break stick £1.09 ( 2.18 AUD )

Minced Beef Patties 450g £2.32 ( 4.77 AUD )

Salmon fillets 550g £7.99 ( 16.45 AUD )

Haribo jellies 200g £1.09 ( 2.24 AUD )

Ritter Chocolate bar 100g (x2) £0.99 each ( 2.03 AUD each )

Pate 170g £1.45 ( 2.98 AUD )

Spanish cured meat selection 75g £2.57 ( 5.29 AUD )

Jar of olives and anchovies on toothpicks 230g £2.99 ( 6.15 AUD )

Sydney

This is an interesting spot of Sydney University, - as it’s been an empty lot / grassed park for many, many years, and, - it’s been a standard first year Architecture student project to design a development and make use of this plot. (Usual requirements included a small studio / gallery space, and a courtyard / meeting space, - not what was actually built)

So, - thousands upon thousands of designs have been done, I’d imagine, over the years. Surely any solution would have to be the absolute pinnacle of an architectural solution? (I have no complaints)

You can’t see, but, underneath where the photograph was taken (and viewable from the road) is a subterranean library.

» Wapping and Docklands - Old & New

Brilliant Flicker photoset

London Docks. (what’s that big hole there?)

This is a mosaic, generated from 8000 of my photos, or, photos from my time in London, the last 3.5 years.

It’s “in progress”, - the computer will finish generating the image in another 2 days.

Fleet Street, - London, - 1924.

Much more beautiful than today, - They should remove all the traffic lights, street markings, - pedestrian fences……. It would be an interesting experiment.