Thoughts
If not for those chaotic rains that the sky spits on the island and winds that get under your coat like two naughty hands and make you shiver from cold, London would be most definitely the dream-city to live in. The sun comes out so rarely that when it does, the city becomes a completely different place. Bright, radient and bold. One of the things I adore most about London is it's contrasts - all possible nationalities, tastes, cultures, subcultures are wildly mixed in blender. Rich and poor live side by side and walk along the same streets.
Bond Street - the central street that runs perpendicular to Oxford street - a place the rich love. High street shops, accessories boutiques and expensive cars parked on the sidewalk. Yet if you take a closer look it has a lot more to offer. Window-shopping can hardly be more enjoyable than here. Colorful outfits, smiling cunstructon crew that is renovating the side walk by LV, a little kiosk owned by a smiling old lady selling flowers and a crowd of italian students eating ice cream, followed by a serious-looking man carrying a bag from BOSS (new suit, obviously).
History
Bond Street it the major shopping street in West End London, divided into Old (southern part) and New Bons (northern part) Streets. It takes it's name from the head of the syndicate of developers who bought the Piccadilly Mansion in 1683, Sir Thomas Bond. The syndicate continue to develop the are and build new houses, moving upward from south to north, thus the devision of the street in the old and new section.
For a while Bond Street was best known as the street of art dealers, Both Sotheby's auction house and Fine Art Society have "lived" on Bond Street for over a hundred years.
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