Multi-Cultural London Road

I've been walking to work in the mornings. :p This is the PA (Personal Assistant) work with a family, to support care for a little boy. I pass by London Road, a road I know as the place to go for exotic and economical foods. :p My favourite Turkish restaurant, Zeugma, is there, there's a chinese bakery, a few Chinese and vietnamese noodle places, and the famed Japanese restaurant, Wasabi-sabi. There is also a choice of Middle-eastern, Pakistan and Indian food. Just the other day I noticed a greek restaurant. I usually go there after dark for dinner with friends. I also have fond memories of marching with SOUL (my community group) holding up massive hand-made laterns, for the Sharrow Lantern festival.

While I do like going there, I have heard many negative things about the area, especially when venturing there at night. My friends have been shouted at when walking along the street.

It's different seeing it in the morning though. That's especially when the shops have not opened for the day. There is a sense of serenity and a feeling of safety as you can see round every single corner. The shops and restaurants with shop names of different ethnic origins stand side by side in the calm, emanating an air of harmony.


:p Someone from a passing car shouted something at me the morning I took those photos. (Not when I was taking the photographs, just when I was walking back to University). Did not really hear what he said... haha but oh well. That morning I just felt like it added to the vibrancy of London Road.