Madame Catfish
...Fascinating...
After going to London for a couple of weeks the Tube System is now a huge obsession of mine. I memorised all the lines and stations the first night so we could get around and now at home I have re-arranged my entire room so that I could fit a large map of the London Underground System on my wall.
It's so beautifully complex- I usually hate underground subways and loud noises and crowdedness and chaos, but the beauty of how it all fits together plays in my mind like music when I'm on the tubes. It becomes almost relaxing. I cannot wait to go back on my own so I can travel the tubes and examine all of the stations by myself, without having to deal with people.
London is a beautiful city, and I never knew that there was such a thing as a "beautiful city" before visiting it. All of the cities around where I live are made of flat and wide buildings with flat roofs and no engraving or embellishment or nicely patterned brick. Even the slums of London are oddly beautiful with the slope of the roofs and the way the streets spiral.
The colours of London, especially the Underground, are more uniform and less intense than the cityscape over here. The most colour I came across in the underground was in Picadilly station, where there were red stripes made out of the tiles on the wall along with brown. The colours themselves weren't bright enough to be overstimulating, but the fact that they had the brown line on the platform wall running immediately adjacent to the red made me a bit jittery because the code colour for the Bakerloo line is brown and the code colour for the Central line is red and they never run together like that, like the District and Circle lines on the map.
It's so beautifully complex- I usually hate underground subways and loud noises and crowdedness and chaos, but the beauty of how it all fits together plays in my mind like music when I'm on the tubes. It becomes almost relaxing. I cannot wait to go back on my own so I can travel the tubes and examine all of the stations by myself, without having to deal with people.
London is a beautiful city, and I never knew that there was such a thing as a "beautiful city" before visiting it. All of the cities around where I live are made of flat and wide buildings with flat roofs and no engraving or embellishment or nicely patterned brick. Even the slums of London are oddly beautiful with the slope of the roofs and the way the streets spiral.
The colours of London, especially the Underground, are more uniform and less intense than the cityscape over here. The most colour I came across in the underground was in Picadilly station, where there were red stripes made out of the tiles on the wall along with brown. The colours themselves weren't bright enough to be overstimulating, but the fact that they had the brown line on the platform wall running immediately adjacent to the red made me a bit jittery because the code colour for the Bakerloo line is brown and the code colour for the Central line is red and they never run together like that, like the District and Circle lines on the map.
