Germany and I walk in the park

Rough couple days for Anglo soccer fans. With the US knocked out, I put all of my chips in with the Three Lions, England's team. Unfortunately, I was disappointed for the second day in a row. I watched the game in a pub with about 200 very angry Brits and 2 very happy German girls. Fun to take part in the atmosphere, not fun to watch England get smoked 4-1.


As I stated, Crosses of St. George were EVERYWHERE in the lead-up to the game. The day after, I didn't see a single one.


After the game, I thought about forgetting my sorrows with an e-reading or whatever they're called but ultimately decided against it. Oh wait, just kidding, I loathe the Church of Scientology. I was even scared to take a photo to be honest. Ask me sometime about my run in with these creeps once in high school.
(wonder if they'll find this post...my life's on the line in the name of art)


Continuing my theme of graffiti from Costa Rica, here's probably the coolest street art I've seen while in London.

Anyways, after Germany's walk in the park against London, I decided to also take a walk in the park to enjoy the sunny day and get away from the sullen British crowds in the streets.

Unfortunately, my walk turned out to be a bit less carefree than I expected. Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens are two adjacent parks in the western part of the London, the richer part of the city. On the map, the two different parks seemed separated only by a river and I figured they would be pretty similar. I was even surprised they had separate names.

The pretty unappealing Hyde Park. Brown grass, devoid of monuments/statues etc. Ugly buildings visible.


And filled predominantly with immigrants... (Though I did find the pita bread amusing)

On the other side, Kensington Gardens, Italian fountains, much better upkeep, greener grass and...almost all white people. The self-imposed racial/socioeconomic segregation was pretty stark. London has a wildly diverse population but that doesn't always mean much.

Anyways, sorry about the late post, my class has begun and it's pretty time consuming and tiring (but very worthwhile so far). I'd love to post some of my photos, but they're in too large a format to be put up online. Maybe I'll figure something out down the line.