Fleet Street and St. Pauls (The City West)

Forgive me, the rest of my pictures have failed me. As you can see, we chose to do this walk at night, and I am glad. Seeing St. Paul's Cathedral standing their, lit up definitely inspired me to learn more about Sir Christopher Wren. He was obviously brilliant if he can create a masterpiece like this. 

Seeing pubs such as this, 'Ye Old Cheshire Cheese', is one of my favorite things. I am a total pub person, not in the sense that I frequent them to drink and watch a game, I frequent them to pour my thoughts into my notebooks. To read about ones such as this where great literary men were inspired fascinates me. I went inside the pub and gazed around, taking in the ancient, dark wood paneled walls, what was it about this place that provided inspiration? Was it the way the dim lighting gave the room a bit of mystery? For Johnson was it being there amongst people he was comfortable with? I think I could sit and write a bit here too, unfortunately there was no room for me on this night, but I think I will go back.  This was certainly the highlight, but I did enjoy the entire walk. This area of the city was particularly dead at night, but it was a peaceful sort of dead, not a creepy one, and I liked that.