The Much-Improved Trafalgar Square
When I was young Trafalgar Square was rather a tacky place, where you went for New Year’s Eve, if you cvould brave it. Traffic rushed everywhere and the central part was completely cut off from everywhere else. But look at it now.
It just shows how things can be improved by removing the traffic.
Is there a more impressive important square in a European capital?
The only problem, is that some Ipswich Town fans might protest that the admiral on the column is from Norfolk.
I do have some happy memories of the place from when I stood on the Fourth Plinth.
The Anonymous Widower 
Still weird things happen sometimes 😦 Several times I witnessed football fans fighting and knocking each other to the ground right amongst the tourists, and before in 2009 a man was murdered there.
Speaking of traffic, the Parliament square stays separated for some reason – to be honest, I used to think the pedestrian crosses were removed more or less recently to cut the protesters camp off but then I was told it has been like that for a long time.
Comment by akopov | September 17, 2011 |