London, empty

On Flickr blog:

On Christmas morning IanVisits got up early and took pictures of an almost empty London.

And then he wrote about it on his blog:

London is never silent, not even at 3am, but on Xmas morning, it is almost silent. The background drone of aircraft approaching Heathrow has gone, and away from main roads, the streets lack the sound of car tyres rolling over tarmac.

My favourite image is this one of a deserted Waterloo Bridge:

You can see the full set here. And you should note that this isn’t the first time IanVisits has visited London on Christmas morning. He did it in 2010 and 2008 as well.

Photo © IanVisits on Flickr.

3 thoughts on “London, empty

  1. If he were there on Xmas morning 1996 he would have seen me in a taxi from Acton driven by a mad, dope smoking Rastafarian, on the way to work in Gloucester Road, sandwiched between 2 more mad dope-smoking Rastafarians along for the ride. I mean, it was 06h00 on Christmas Day after all, what else did they have to do?

  2. Tania > How odd. In December 1996, I was working as a dope-smoking, Rastafarian (tautology?) taxi driver in London. I don’t remember you though. In fact, I don’t remember very much at all.

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