From a certain spot, not too far from St Pauls cathedral, you can stand and see three seperate Starbuck’s stores lined up down the street. Those green signs are hard to miss.

London certainly seems to have a lot of chain food outlets. I guess it comes about from having a huge population.

If you walk down the length of Oxford street, amongst others - you will see the same stores repeated several times… HMV, Gap, H&M, Carphone warehouse, Books etc. I reckon that there are at least four Gap stores on Oxford Street. I think they kind of centre around each tube station.. Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Bond Street and Marble Arch.

…and I am still reminded of my childhood seeing all these names. I really am living and working on a big Monopoly board

It snowed today. The weather man has been predicting a cold snap since last week. I have never known weather guys to be so accurate.

The snow flakes were huge! Floating almost horizontally in the wind.. but they melted on the ground. I’m not sure I will ever get used to this weather.