The streets of London

The past few days, in my life has really been joyful, it was filled with meeting close friends, family and old family friends of ours. Many I met in the buzzing streets of London and a few in the country side. Few of my friends I met often, decided to meet and chat in restraunts over a sumptuous meal. The cuisines were Chinese, thai and Indian, which we preferred at all times! Halfway through our meal, we compared and contrasted the taste and blend, to other restraunts. A few family friends invited us to the country side: Surrey and Northolt. It was completely different, because we saw lush green on both the sides of the over rail, normally my eyes are used to the darkness of the London underground. It was great to eat vegetables grown in one’s own garden, baked potatoes tasted much better and the salads looked genuinely tempting to me, a person who hates raw green leaves, in any part of the world.

London has a unique mixture of world cultures and traditions. It is truly cosmopolitan in nature. You can just find any kind of food that you want without any difficulty, at all. Shopping seems to get interesting year after year. Oxford street gets busier day by day. Knightsbridge is filled with shoppers, carrying bags and bags of shopping… Some might wish they were blessed with more than two hands, to carry it all back home.. Tottenham Court road is filled with young shoppers, the more of the gadget freaks.

High street retailers are all offering sweet discounts. There are big slashes in prices. The SALE board seems to hang on all the shops. Choices seem to be plenty and the fashion seems to be changing quickly, people want to be trendy. There are huge varieties of summer clothes, trousers, cosmetics and accessories. Time seems to fly, once you start shopping, when you come out of one, the Polo t-shirts and and Levi Jean on display at the other store, seem to catch the eye. The range stalked is certainly not the same as every store, some better than the other.

The customer is spoilt by choice and the spread. It is best to be brand conscious so that you just stick to a couple of brands and choose wisely from the selected few. Armani Exchange for example has introduced a selection of body sprays and a range of cool sunglasses, so a loyal Armani customer would be willing to try on some of these and if he is happy with the product, he might never visit a sunglass hut or buy a bottle of DKNY spray, again. For him Armani serves all his needs. This is the marketing mantra followed by most fashion brand owners.

The saying that if a man gets bored in London, he is forever bored in life is so true. The accessibility to places is extremely straight forward; the underground system is one of the best in the world. It is a city that never sleeps…. In a true sense !