{"id":6801,"date":"2020-08-18T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2020-08-18T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:45:37","slug":"charing-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6801","title":{"rendered":"Charing Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>I&#8217;ve begun going through our massive photo collection &#038; pulling things out of circulation. One can really only so many pictures of the same building, you know? So, how do you manage 39,000 photos?<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>In our case, it&#8217;s pretty simple, in a way. If it&#8217;s not a meaningful picture &#8211; doesn&#8217;t say something important, make us remember someone or something important &#8211; then it gets made private. That means, of course, that I&#8217;ve got to look at every single photo along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>So I downloaded them and am working my way through alphabetically. I&#8217;ve just made it through Charing Cross. Yes, the lighting all looks like this. Doesn&#8217;t mercury vapor provide a nice ambience? \/sarcasm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/4290841145\" title=\"Charing Cross 399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4024\/4290841145_81d0181f29_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Charing Cross 399\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Charing Cross is basically where we spent most of our time in Glasgow, simply because it&#8217;s in the middle of everything. It&#8217;s also a sort of weird place where people would ask for me to take their picture. They didn&#8217;t really even want to <i>see<\/i> the picture. Just to be photographed was enough.<\/p>\n<div clear=both align=center>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/4410984410\" title=\"Charing Cross 418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2724\/4410984410_c75f3865cc_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Charing Cross 418\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3126261315\" title=\"Charing Cross 233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3253\/3126261315_e0f899ebfe_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Charing Cross 233\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/4427246873\" title=\"Charing Cross 436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4015\/4427246873_83f7509710_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Charing Cross 436\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=Indent>Of course, for me it was also a great place for selfies, as there&#8217;s a building which spans the motorway there which has mirrored windows. I&#8217;d quite often end up stopped there &#038; would say hello, as it were. <a href='https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/BjJEKyxrbY5qkf7T8'>Have a wee look around at the street view map.<\/a><\/p>\n<div clear=both align=center>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/4530407994\" title=\"Charing Cross 473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4037\/4530407994_38a17bd1ae.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Charing Cross 473\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/5885450913\" title=\"Charing Cross 530\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6030\/5885450913_749bcddcbe.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Charing Cross 530\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=Indent>Not quite the standard mirror-selfies. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find more along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve begun going through our massive photo collection &#038; pulling things out of circulation. One can really only so many pictures of the same building, you know? So, how do you manage 39,000 photos? In our case, it&#8217;s pretty simple, in a way. 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