Sunday 21 December 2008

the architecture of London

The architecture of London isn’t limited by specific pattern. There are many architectures in London, new ones and old ones. These architectures has been built by long time.
London had many fires in 1666,and many architectures has gone. The most famous architectures escape from fires are Tower of London and Westminster Abbey.

The area in gureter London is called City of London. This is the center of history and modern city developed from here. We can see various styles of architectures in this place. There are churches built by Christofer・Rane. For examples, St Paul’s Cathedral. Other buildeings are Royal Exchange, Bank of England.
Moreover, there are buildings that are becoming the center of public attention, Tower42 Lloyd’s Building 30 St Mary Axe.

Tuesday 16 December 2008

British Pub

There are many pubs in the U.K. Statistically, there are about 70000 pubs in the U.K. and about 10000 pubs in Ireland. Pub is very popular among British people.Pub is an abbreviation for “Public House”. Pub hold a banquet, mainly beer. So many British people go to pubs after their work and drink beer. But drinking of beer in a public house is not compulsory it. We can choose another drink and eat some foods. In the Britin, most popular food is "Fish and Chips". It's much potatoes and whitefishes. It is very reasonable.
In the pub, they broadcasted football game on TV. We could drink with watching football game. So, British pub entertained us with drinks, foods, football game, time and space!!