London - architecture

My mother likes to say that my interest in culture and art is extremely limited and under developped, considering the fact the most of my pictures are those showing architecture prooves her somehow wrong I guess!
I went to the tate modern museum all alone, out of my free will and interest hehee

Actually it is right that I am not very much interested in going in museums, I think its much more interesting to watch what the people in that particular area do now, rather than what they used to do hundreds and hundreds of years ago!
I am much more interested in seeing how people behave, how they dress, what they do, how they live then watching what their ancestors used to do.
Maybe thats also why I think modern art is so much more interesting to me, and architecture.. how people live says so much about how they think and are!









This picture above, or more precisely that building above is my absolutely favorite!
For some that might be hard to believe but I dont really care.
It somehow evoces so much feelings in me and remembers me of so many things..
It reminds me of brazil, of the ghettos in my hometown and berlin and first and foremost it reminds me of Patras!!!
When i was still in school, I think i was about 15, I went with my school to greece. we came by ship and arrived greece at the harbour of Patras. I remember that I went with my friend down the streets, searching for a backery. And I also remember how ugly the streets were, everything was grey and noisy and dirty but still it was so so wonderful!!!
I also remember that in all the grey dirt there were palmtrees coming out of the asphalt and that they really made me think and somehow they must have really touched me.
When I went to brazil some months ago, the dirty gray streets of Recife reminded me again of Patras.. and now that building in London..
I really want to see those streets again, probably they will look completely different but something must be about them that they stayed in my mind all those years...

London - the hotel

I first agreed to go on that trip because of the very cheap flight and because I was told I could stay with thi Haos friend..
turns out.. not the case!
The friend didn't want me to stay with her and anyways, who wants to be with somebody that don't want to be with you???
First I was very upset, thinking about canceling the flight but after some consideration decided to still go on the trip since that was the only time I was free for travel and had sufficient financial ressources ;)

so I booked a hotel for 40€ per night which turned out to be amazing!
There was an eqyptian receptionist who made me cry the second night with his words, but thats a story I might tell on a later point..
The hotel was just by the hyde park, very central and wonderful location..


Thats the street behind the hotel which I could see from my window.. it was sooo Notthing Hill!!! and I really would love to be able to live in such an area sometime..
very sweet, cozy, calm and just really nice..




Just in front of my hotel, sussex gardens.. sooo niceeee!


And here it is, my sweet little hotel.. Lancaster Court Garden...
Since I always got back home at night and was in a hurry in the mornings theres just a night time picture of my little treasure.


In the end, taking a hotel was the best I could do on that trip!
So I could do what I wanted, when and how I wanted..
Nobody disturbing my peaceful nights!
And like so so so many times before I realised that sometimes something might happen that we feel very angry or sad about but in the end it turns out to be the best solution!
After meeting that particular girl I know I would have hated to stay with her,
so Al Hamdoulilah!!!

London - the people

In the first week of february I went to London, the flight was just 50€!!!
It was my first time UK and therefore also the first time London and I really hope it wasn't the last time that Ive had the chance to visit that inspiring city.
London was the first city Ive seen that is in my eyes really diverse and multicultural. Here in France and Germany we also have very colourful cities, but it seems that the different ethnic or religious groups stay still seperated. They live all together in one city but still represent different groups of people who stay in different areas of the city. So they are mt, ulticultural cities in which the different cultures stay seperated and the minorities have their own space.
In London I had for the first time the feeling that the different cultures and minorities are really mixed. There are still separated districts like the pakistani district or china town, but there was still the impression that they are all Londons citizens, that it is possible to be from London and still be so different that other people from London..
I don't know if what I say makes sense to anybody or if what I say is even correct, but in my eyes it makes sense and is what I have seen during that 5 days.

Also for the first time I saw hijabi women allover!
pharmacist, assistant in accesorize.. allover in every store and position (as far as I can see).
I really wish from my heart that hijabi women in Germany will be able to see the same situation in their live!

Sooo, since I have soo many pictures Ill split my London report in different posts.
And the first is dedicated to the participants of this trip.
I went with Thi Hao and Luis, our mexican fellow student joined us the first day. Later he spend the days with his other friends but we flew back all together.