Mind your brain

February 13th, 2008

Mind the gap

Should I be worried about the fact that I have been trying to touch out with my home keys in stead of my Oyster card the last two days, while leaving the tube station?

Tube dogs

Those two did accompany me this morning on my travel on the Hammersmith & City Line. Trust me they look more dangerous than they were, they were quite cute, and a bit bored and not too happy to be on the train. And they have this intensely sad look on their face. They are [...]

Baker Street, London

Again something I first noticed when I came home and had a proper look at it.
Can you spot it?

Mind the doors

December 2nd, 2006

London Underground

I walked to Waterloo station after the theatre to get the Northern Line. I walked just behind 4 crazy (the good way) English guys who were already in a weekend mood. As they were a few steps ahead of me they could just about wrestle themselves into the train, using arms and legs to [...]

Voicilicious

April 28th, 2006

After the NI interview I had to get to work. Yes, life is tough in London.
I went back to Tooting Bec tubestation, and placed myself in front of the small window of the Information/Assistance desk. My eyes met the friendly eyes of the Assistance man. I asked him how I could get to Croydon the [...]

Heavy Loads

April 23rd, 2006

Heavy Loads not permitted

Now, I have 2 questions:
1. Why did they use the “” around Heavy Loads ?
2. And what do they mean with Heavy Loads in the first place ? How heavy are we talking about ?
(Picture taken at an Underground station, and I don’t rrreally remember which one at the moment (annoying isn’t [...]

Love thou underground

March 24th, 2006

14 reasons to love the London Underground:

If you just missed a train, the next one won’t be far away.
You never really know for sure how the world looks like when you popup above ground again. Life is an adventure.
Yes sure there are delays sometimes. But I have never seen delays being notified so clearly. And [...]

London is the place for me

March 5th, 2004

London Tube
At least for the next 2 days. Tomorrow I’ll leave at 10.00 am from Aarhus Airport to London. Tomorrow the Danish band tv-2 will play their first concert this year in Shepherds Bush Empire. There are quite a lot of Danes living in London, and there are quite some Danes making the trip to [...]

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