Joe Bloggs

Weapons Grade Suppository?

Well the odyssey is coming to an end and I haven't managed to get any pictures up until now. Other pictures (especially of Florence) will follow - possibly on days when I don't have much to say - but in the meantime here are a couple of photos of a building I've talked about before. My photos (as usual) don't really do it justice and you certainly have to look carefully at the photo on the left (click on them for larger views), but I give you the Swiss Re building at 30 St Mary Axe. Sometimes known as the Erotic Gherkin, I prefer the title I read somewhere else and have used here. Not that I didn't think it impressive in the flesh - so to speak. By far the most imaginative building in the neighbourhood and I noticed many a head rise, look away and then look again when they approached. The colour was a little disappointing, but I think that was as much due to the cloudy day as anything else. That is to say, everything looked depressed that day. Worth a visit if you are in town.

See you back in Japan.