London on a crisp winter day

Last week I spent a day in London and a few things I had never noticed before caught my eye.

  First, the golden ship above Haymarket, in the 
City of Westminster. 

London is full of statues of kings and soldiers on horses. Earlier this year, a boy riding a rocking horse was added to the Capital's monuments -- at the honored spot of Trafalgar Square's empty fourth plinth.

The bronze sculpture by Scandinavian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset is called Powerless Structures.  It is a lovely anti-war statement piece that doesn't represent a history of battles to commemorate – only a future to hope for.

The Temple Bar Dragon stands guard over the boundary between the City of London and the City of Westminster.  There are ten dragons that guard the old City of London. The Temple Bar Dragon is the fiercest looking one.