Where I work: My walk to work in the mornings part 1

For quite some time I have wanted to write about my walk to work in the mornings and what better time than when I am stuck in bed with a stomach bug?  Being a nostalgic type of person, I often pick up on items in my daily life that I will remember fondly in times to come.  This walk and the sites I see will be among those memories.

I exit London Bridge station through the bottom entrance that runs between London Bridge Rail and London Bridge Underground Stations.  To the left of where this photograph was taken is where the Shard and London Bridge Quarter are being constructed.  This is a really exciting development that is going to change the face of the London skyline, so check out the link!

I often stop by at the McDonalds for coffee.  I am not really a coffee drinker but I like the taste of McDonalds latte.  I try not to overdo it though - coffee make me bounce off the walls for hours on end and so I restrict it to once or twice a week.

I find it exciting to walk through Guy's Hospital every day.  Guy's is a very famous teaching hospital and I can't help but be reminded of E.R. and Grey's Anatomy when I walk through here.

I walk right through the centre of King's College every day and I think it is so beautiful.  I love the massive trees and the old building to the right there.  Right at the bottom you can see the World War I war memorial.  I quite enjoy looking at war memorials - I find them to be haunting and beautiful. 

One thing I have noticed - there seem to be so many more memorials for the first world war than for the second world war.  Is this because people were tired of remembering the dead by the time the second war came about (in the sense that they were exhausted and emotionally shattered)?  There seem to be no memorials for the war dead of recent times either.

In my quest to avoid the crowds on Borough High Street, I continue my walk through a Southwark council housing estate.  There are many estates in much worse condition in England - many are just concrete skyscraper tenement blocks with no facilities for children and high rates of social problems and crime.  Still, I can't help but look at this and compare it to some of the poverty I have seen in South Africa or the rest of the world.  English people are luckier than they realise and as I am lucky enough to be able to vote here, I guess I would vote for whichever party wanted to maintain this standard of living.

The second to last attraction on my walk is the Southwark Coroner's Court.  The most infamous case to be heard by the court recently is the Jean Charles de Menezes inquest but that is being in special sessions in the Oval cricket Ground and not actually the court itself.