I like London

I like London. It is a cauldron of engineering innovation.

We caught the train from Heathrow. Out the window the scene is of terraced houses and allotments, just like TV. The train goes underground, and I fall in love with the oxblood tile designs at the stations. We change trains to another line with smaller carriages. We navigate stairs and throngs of people. I am following Helga, not knowing where I am going.

London at the peak of the industrial revolution was the largest city in the world. According to our walking tour guide, 1000 tonnes of horse poop was picked up off the streets every day and just imagine the quantities of human poop that 2.4 million people produce…. another story. For whatever reason what must have started out as a small village beside a river became so popular that it outgrew its footprint and in response Victorian engineers got creative and went underground with their railway. I get the feeling that anything was possible.