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Late Business Trip to London

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A view over the Southbank:  Odeon, King's College, Stamford Street, new towers. A short trip to London in the afternoon and evening hours of January 2020.  Getting off in the Waterloo Station (below, left), walking through the misty streets, towards the City . The central London grows in eerie mystery, each time visited, more and more; the walls start to look at you through its stern stone of the medieval churches tucked  among the steel and glass . The memorable shapes put a stamp in the mind. London does impress - in many different ways. And there are many secretive, dark and arcane goings, to this day. You can literally feel it through your skin, while walking at this hour. The modern sculpture (below, lower right) - a most dramatic display : of the  voracious  forces of nature among the many headquarters of the global financial system .   The Gherkin and its surrounds  The east part of the City of London , near the Aldgate and Liverpool Street stations grew in last decad