Day 3

I stared at this sign from a Japanese restaurant, and thought to myself about cultural diversity and globalization. I had just bought myself a pair of Clark’s shoes because I was told that these are very good "English " shoes, of course they are not made in England but in Vietnam according to the label I found later on inside one of the shoes. The notion that something is off a specific place in these times of globalization needs to be questioned as much as we question the veracity of photographs in this digital age.

Later on in the day we went to Regents Park, one of the most beautiful parks in the world. I have never seen anything like London parks anywhere else, and in these long light summer nights it's a true delight to visit.

It happens that the Sultan of Brunei who owns a home adjacent to the park, donated his luscious private gardens to be added to the public spaces already there; so you end up having an astonishing garden that would be the envy of any private home, I would say, anywhere in the world become a public space. You can now even have a little “English” picnic –even with an English Terrier– in these ex-gardens of the Sultan, right there in the middle of London.

Pedro Meyer
June 21, 2001
London, UK.

For comments post a message in our forum section at ZoneZero.