Little Venice
@Oct/'02 UK
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Canal in Little Venice
Walk up Holland Avenue covered with thick, tall Platanus trees in full autumn color. This is Nottinghill in west London. It is one of my favorite spending my weekend time in London to walk around this area. Portobello is just one block away after turn the corner at subway station “Nottinghill Gate”, where all sort of inscrutable things you could buy at thousands of antique shops, small and big, genuine and not so genuine, spread over the street. On every Saturday, the street would be over crowded with extra open air shops and tourists or buyers from all over the world and from London. Early hours in the morning, I pass the street just looking shop windows and open air shops still preparing to open, toward the direction to Paddington Terminal Station of British Railway. Just beyond the station, Little Venice is there. This is another favorite spot I found in London.
Fashionable House Boat on canal water
Canal area is far from city noise, it is so quiet as if you are in remote
local village, even you still in the middle of one of the world largest
city, London. Fashionable house boats are moored along the promenade shadowed
by coloring tall trees in autumn. The matured atmosphere was hanging around
in chic house block facing the canal. I love this sort of atmosphere as
well that of famed north Italian city having the same name. Here, time
passes slow like in the old Japanese town Kyoto Nara. Two canals emerge
at Warwick bridge and makes a wide water pass. In the corner of this junction,
there is a floating café. On Sunday morning, it is my favorite time
to read newspaper on the floating café in Little Venice having a
cappuccino on the table.
When I tired of reading papers, I start walking along the canal to the
west. There are numbers of unique house boats decorated pot trees and flowers
moored on the canal. You come to the street where many Arabic shops are
packed together. At this point canal go into the tunnel. At the hem of
the tunnel, there is another café restaurant, “Café Riviere”.
The view from the Café Riviere is so magnificent. The canal is just
in front and trees of the both banks were brilliantly colored in autumn
in this season. The meals are absolutely worth 10 times of the value.
18/Oct/'02 Rinzo@London UK (Updated on 27/Aug/'05)
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