Today we met a friend from outside London and took him round some of the places he wanted to see. We covered a good deal of ground and so I will simply show photographs of some of the things and places that we saw.

St Pancras and King’s Cross Stations

King’s Cross Departures

Striking building, St John’s Street and Charterhouse Street

Walking through Smithfield Market

One of the “Gates”

Entrance, Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

I Goat, Kenny Hunter, 2010

One of the elephants of the Herd of Hope exhibition

Stalls, Spitalfields Market

Wooden Boat with Seven People, Kalliopi Lemos, 2012

Jacob, dray horse monument, The Circle (near Tower Bridge)

Low tide, St Saviour’s Dock

The Thames and the sky

Pedestrian Bridge across St Saviour’s Dock

Shad Thames

Sun, rain and clouds over the Thames

Tower Bridge

Hay’s Galleria, previously Hay’s Wharf

The Navigators, David Kemp, 1987

The day started cloudy with sunny intervals with a cold wind. Towards the end of our outing, in defiance of the weather forecast, it began to rain torrentially.

From Hay’s Galleria, we were soon at London Bridge Station where we were able to catch a 43 bus back to the Angel.