Trinity Buoy Wharf & Traffic Light Tree

[squirmelia]

It snowed that day, and as I waited for fluffymark at East India, I stared out of the window at the view of skyscrapers and snow, thinking of how it reminded me of Vancouver.

It was cold outside as we walked towards Trinity Buoy Wharf and I snacked upon the space food I'd bought at Cybercandy the day before: a freeze dried cookies & cream ice-cream saucer. I had also bought a Japanese chestnut KitKat and a packet of Canadian chocolate fudge clodhoppers. fluffymark bought Australian tim-tams, a Japanese red apple KitKat and some kind of great sounding energy drink. We managed to resist the Zotter chocolate, which came in many flavours, such as "bacon bits","cheese-walnut-grapes" and "sweet potato-mocha-rosemary".

In the street leading to the wharf, the lamp-posts were decorated. Ants were painted to crawl around the base of one lamp-post and another had traffic cones taped near the top. One lamp-post was pink and another was like a totem pole, with faces, and the strangest was perhaps the one with an arch hanging upside down from it.

As we reached Trinity Buoy Wharf, a girl who had been playing the guitar prior to our arrival greeted us, from the information centre. We wandered past and came across Container City- a colourful block of flats made from recycled shipping containers. Opposite that stood Fatboys Diner, but it was closed. Next to the diner stood a small hut marked, "The Faraday Effect".

Further on was the lighthouse, London's only lighthouse. It's only open on the first weekend of the month, but inside it, if you climb to the top, you can hear Longplayer, a "1000 year long piece of music".

We headed to Canary Wharf after that, to drink Cadbury's Creme Egg milkshakes and to stare at the Traffic Light Tree. We just about managed to avert our eyes from the Olympic flame as it passed.

Photos on Flickr: Trinity Buoy Wharf.

Comments

[janieluk.livejournal.com]

I was there a year or two ago. They have an open weekend thing occasionally, where you can walk around container city and the various artists' studios. Fatboys was open then, and it's the best diner-type place I've been to.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

What is in the Faraday Effect shed? I'm curious.

[janieluk.livejournal.com]

I believe Faraday carried out some work in the area, and the shed is a miniature museum. There's a photo of the inside here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenlad/349176969/

From the Wikipedia page: 'As a respected scientist in a nation with strong maritime interests, Faraday spent extensive amounts of time on projects such as the construction and operation of light houses and protecting the bottoms of ships from corrosion.'

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those chestnut kit kats are a bit disappointing don't you think? (haha I'm first hit on google for them and all). I have vague ideas about making a home-made chestnut/chocolate/wafer combo sorta THING but never got round to it and I'm not sure if Waitrose have any frozen chestnuts and the stalls have now abandoned chestnuts in favour of ice creams (EVEN THOUGH IT'S RAINING). I knew I should have frozen a few more bags.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I remember reading about them on your LJ and thinking they sounded exciting. :) I am now looking on Wikipedia at other flavours - kiwifruit, soybean flour, caramel and salt, iced tea, cantaloupe, mango, etc!

Chestnut was okay, but the taste of chestnut is not that strong a taste, I guess.

I think Waitrose sell tins of puréed chestnut.

[bickichick.livejournal.com]

traffic light tree is cool!! really fabulous!! I guess it would not control traffic allthat well eh, unless you are a paedistrian and you re all walking in differerent directions...

ooh Canary Warf big battle happened there in Doctor WHo