Amidst the busy schedule (it was because of amount of work and no schedule 
), the trip to London was planned. This one was known to me with in a week’s time and got confirmed on the last minute. So after the purchasing and packing in a hurry, i had started to New Bengaluru International Airport. I should say, the 5km stretch deviation from NH7 main road (towards Hyderabad) to the BIAL is world class but the airport just manages to touch the small international airports. I heard the hyderabad one is lot better than this. Hope that is international one. Dont know when Chennai guys are going to materialize the metro plan and international airport plan at kanchipuram or is it at sriperumpudur?
Except for throwing out of some important food items (only on this u can save something when u go on site) and few dress items due to over weight of the luggage, journey was good.
London, Heathrow airport architecture was amazing, i meant their connectivity. Rather i would say, the London underground popularly known as the “TUBE” was one of the wonders of the world. The architects of those must be creators who can think and predict the future needs of the city. Not only under the buildings and parks it was built, it was built under the river bed of the Thames, under the ocean bed of Atlantic Ocean. Yes under the deep ocean !
Below are some the pictures of the same. It was the architectural brillance.
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I have traveled in metros of Delhi, Toronto and those undergrounds stations are ‘just’ air-conditioned but here you can see the actual air flowing in. The depth of this undergrounds are of that two-story building. Can you believe this? All the tube (underground name) stations are provided with great illumination, proper fire exit, air-condition to the extent it is needed (guess that will be used at extreme winter and summer), escalators, announcing systems (mostly automated), security cameras etc etc. I request the Chennai admin guys to go there study it and make the same way. Look at this website. How poor it is. What the heck he is doing there ??? but the proposed project looks very good. Appreciation to them for that. It seems they are planning under the bed of river Couom and along the side of Adayar. I pray to god that they should take care of environment and nature of Chennai along with this project. Hope more scenic view of Chennai is available once the phase one (to be completed by 2016 as they say, so add 5 more years to that 2021) is over. With commercial geographies getting altered once this kind of projects are made in a city, T.Nagar will be relieved.
Ok now coming back to London, i should say one should travel to experience such artistic architectural buildings.
Then i have visited Tower bridge, regent’s park (the squirrel episode is in the previous post), the popular was museum, the Madame Tussuads and went for a cruise at Millennium Pier, Watched the whole city from the top at London Eye, The famous Big Ben, the clock, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Building (the British parliament) and the centre of the world Greenwich.
Below are some of the photos.
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P.S: Oru vazhiya 6 maasathukku mela thoongindu irundha post-a thatti ezhupittean 
and my blog header pic which is there for 6 months is also one among them
