A billion balconies facing the sun

The hotel room was booked via work’s travel agent. The view and facilities were rather lacking. My colleague is a rare creature, an Englishman who will complain. He got both our rooms upgraded. The view is significantly better now.

QMUL Canalside

Some recent photographs from the Regent’s Canal as it passes though the QMUL campus. There were several of these grasshoppers chirping away, trying to find a mate. They were very approachable, not vanishing just as the shutter clicks. Common species, both male and female have short front wings and no hind wings.