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In April 2016, I chaperoned on my son’s high school band trip. We stayed at the Hyatt Place, Chicago/Downtown. 300 high school kids in one hotel. I felt for the other guests. On the edge of the core, the Hyatt Place Chicago/Downtown is three blocks north of the Willis Tower and eight blocks west of the Cloud Gate (The Bean). To ensure the kids kept quite after lights out we would put a strip of scotch tape across the door […]
Continuing with my series of images of London, here’s a view North West from Tower Bridge. Like the photo of to the west, this was taken from the west walkway and has been processed through Photomatix.
As I mentioned yesterday, about a month after I took this photo, the restoration order was published in the paper and over the next several years they set about restoring this row of former warehouses and stores into cafes, bars and shops. If you were to look at the same view today, you’d notice many of the rook lines remain the same but there’s a degree more homogenization and cleanliness about the place. No more bushes growing in the gutters.
