Londres
SIGHTS
Carnaval de Notting Hill a l’última setmana d’agost.
TRAFALGAR SQUARE is the heart of visitor’s London. This is where many great marches and rallies take place, and where the new year is seen by thousands of people. It’s also where you’ll fight for space with flocks of pigeons.
The square was designed in the 19th century. The 43.5 Nelson’s Column, which incorporates granite from places as far as Cornwall and the Scotish Highlands, commemorates the admiral’s victory over Napoleon off Cape Gibraltar in Spain in 1805.
Trafalgar square is flanked by many imposing buildings. To the north is the National Gallery, and behind that the National Portrait Gallery. Then there is Pall Mall, which was named after an Italian game called “palla a maglio” played there by Charles II and his court. The church of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields is to the north east, and directly east stands South Africa House. There are also Admiralty Arch and Canada House.
CAMDEN LOCK MARKET is in reality not one but six different markets around the original place where a craft market started. Camden Town is a sea of entertainment. It overflows with a variety of colourful markets, shops, restaurants, bars, pubs, clubs, theatres and cinemas. The town attracts enormous crowds of Londoners and tourists alike.
There is always something happening in the centre of Camden Town. Multitudes of shops and restaurants spill out on to the busy Main Streets. Days in Camden start slow and easy – shops and stalls open around 10am usually until 6pm, although some traders do stay open later. In the evening the theatres, bars, clubs, pubs and restaurants continue to swing until at least 11pm.
Juliol 2004: El mercat de Camden encara és allà mateix però estan fent-hi obres i no sé si se l’acabaran de carregar perquè ja està massa ple de turistes. Les paradetes de menjar han canviat de lloc i tornaran a fer-ho quan acabin les obres, però encara són una bona mostra de cuina ràpida del món. Problemes per seure-hi, però menjar relativament bo a força bon preu. Bon cafè a “Inhabiton”, a la vora del pont de la via del tren, a Chalk Farm Rd.
Novembre 2010: totalment perdut l’esperit rebel; això és com un centre comercial per a gent de quaranta cap amunt amb passat hippy o punkie que porten els seus fills (o alumnes) a passejar.
The BRITISH MUSEUM is one of the greatest museums in the world. Among its fabulous collections there are two about Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Mesopotamia is a Greek word meaning ‘between the rivers’. The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates which flow through modern Iraq. The Euphrates also flows through much of Syria. People living in southern Mesopotamia developed one of the earliest writing systems in the world. The system was developed so that information could be recorded.
Over many centuries, the ancient Egyptians developed a method of preserving bodies so they would remain lifelike. The process included embalming the bodies and wrapping them in strips of linen. Today we call this process mummification.
