Paul in London

Scenes from Leicester Square Thursday 20:05 Originally uploaded by Pauly_ . The square post premiere of the new Superman movie... Not as popular as a Tom Cruise flick...

Scenes from Kennington Tube Tuesday 23:57 Originally uploaded by Pauly_ . After having a few sensible vodkas catching up with J fromAustralia, snapping photos of nice looking people was one way to pass the time waiting for the next southbound tube... Oh and the gentlemen centre was inspecting his abdominals. He must work out. The 6-pack is popular in London for those who don't eat chocolate, drink beer, eat pizza and spend most of their free time in the gym perched atop a swiss ball. I don't have one. I still eat a little bit of chocolate...

American woman : Yeah it was like… It was like… It was like… It was like… It was like… Ffffuck! Man : Yeah?

Scenes from outside Costa... Originally uploaded by Pauly_ . Some people chose to listen to the match rather than watch it (that way they could photograph everyone from their rather good seats outside Costa coffee...) Oh and hopefully this answers the request for more photos of Paul in London locations... Well... It's a start...

DSC02307 Originally uploaded by Pauly_ . Old Compton Street becomes and extended viewing area outside Pulcinella where there is a tv facing out on the street...

DSC02255 Originally uploaded by Pauly_ . The World Cup final still had over half an hour before it started but it was ground zero for fans who were shouting EEE-TAL-YA, EEE-TAL-YA, EEE-TAL-YA... Having a three syllable name for a country makes it all the more exciting really...

Scenes from Bedford Square Sunday 18:09 Originally uploaded by Pauly_ . WC1 is home to many beautiful squares. This one - Bedford Square - is famous for its historic homes and crack dealers . The square has just been tarted up a little as well...

7/7 One year on Originally uploaded by finkangel . Kings Cross at noon today. Taken by a Flickr user (click the link above to see more images) or see the BBC coverage ...

Monday night I caught the new production of Tosca at Covent Garden. There are two casts so I did not see the now infamous (non)star turn by Angela Gheorghiu but a fantastic performance by Catherine Naglestad who could act and had the voice for such a dramatic role. I got the ticket as A decided to swap his tickets for tonight with Saturday's final performance with Gheorghiu (and thankfully ignoring the advice from the opera house staff that he already had tickets to the better performance). The opera sinks or swims on the strength of the soloist in playing the title role. Thankfully Naglestad was a tiger and not a Romanian kitten . Perhaps she turned up to rehearsals so she knew what to do with the heavy dress she was burdened with for the second and third act. She also was never drowned out by the orchestra. These were things you would think you would take for granted when going to see something at Covent Garden, but apparently they were missing at Saturday evening's perform...

More images by clicking on the photo. So another year another pride, although this year was bigger given it was Europride swelling the numbers to somewhere around half a million people... Marching down Oxford Street was fun. Mind you the group I was walking with (not under any banner just the assortment at the end) were tempted to ditch the parade as we passed John Lewis thinking of all the bargains we were missing out on in the half-yearly sale. I went back on Sunday however...