Go Recycling - Cleaning Up a beach in Hawaii - could you clean up your beach or city?

Trash Or Stash?
Trash is a worldwide problem. It isn't just ugly. First it is harming wildlife. Photos on the internet show abandoned fishing nets strangling turtles and tangled around the fins of fish. A turtle has a straw stuck up its nose. Birds and fish have pieces of plastic and plastic bags in their stomachs. The plastic is not excreted but forming a giant blockage or ball, uncomfortable, and killing them. 

How can we stop this happening? Prevention or cure? Cure is good. But prevention is better. Cure is good, necessary, but we must think longterm, because with the human population expanding, wildlife is diminishing. The Chinese curbed the birthrate of citizens in Shanghai to one child per family, although the government has now changed that policy.

We can prevent plastic being made. Recycle existing plastic. It is no use doing one without the other. But no use avoiding doing one because you or your orgnaization cannot do all three. You do what you can do. Others do what they can do. Together we can make a difference.

How do you change habits? Analyse your own family's behaviour and try to co-ordinate. You see what a baby does. it picks up things to look at them. Bored, it throws them away.

How can we utilitse the children's urge to throw? Stones in a pond? Making ripples.  What about plastic? Instead of throwing plastic where it should not go, throw it where it should go.

I have videos on the internet of litter bins which are shaped like creatures with a mouth which opens to receive litter like big versions of pedal bins in your home or nearby supermarket. The bin then says thank you or well done or somethign amusing in a voice matching the bin design, quakcing duck, or whatever. 

Next, I immediately envisage bottle caps being used to be thrown at targets in a game. Children will gather items to collect to throw into bins, or to make into a game.

Some people, adults, like to collect. Encourage them to collect litter.

Some people like to throw away. Encourage them to throw things in the right bin.

Some people like to create. Encourage them to create objects from abandoned plastic.

Songs
Songwriters can write a recycling song for their favourite project or city or the world. Here's my immediate effort.

Song:
What are you doing today
by Angela Lansbury
What are you doing today? Are you throwing your life away?
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you litter and dirty?  Or clean up our earth! 

 Look - Litter's heartbreaking. Help! You could be making
Our precious earth, more dirty or clean than it was at your birth.
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you litter and dirty?  Or clean up our earth! 

You could be prospecting. You could be collecting.
 Instead of thwarting, you could be sorting.

Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Don't you litter and dirty?  Help clean up our earth! 

We're circled by plastic. But life is elastic.
Let's pick up the litter. Let's make our life better.
While you are here, collect, recycle, make a great souvenir.
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you litter and dirty?  Or clean up our earth! 

How was the wonderful world at your birth?
The plants and tall trees which grew from moist earth
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you litter and dirty?  Or clean up our earth! 

When each grain of sand could smoothe your small your hand
When you could spend hours just sniffing the flowers
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you litter and dirty?  Or clean up our earth! 

School kids walked and looked, toddlers turned picture books
Magnificent mountains, soft, pure clean water, magic dancing fountains
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you litter and dirty?  Or clean up our earth! 

Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Will you drop litter?  Or will you tidy and clean up our earth! 
Remember the wonderful world at your birth, 
Don't you litter and dirty?  Help clean up our earth! 

Angela Lansbury. Copyright 2019.
Please pass on with the author's tagline. Sing to your favourite traditional out of copyright tune.

Reward. Advertise rewards.

Punish. Advertise fines.

Here's one way to do it. Like the Canadian company in Hawaii did it. Not hurting or harming. helping.

Don't hurt. Don't harm. Help.

CLEARING BEACHES BIG TIME - BIG PROJECTS
Clenaing. Inventing. A team in Canada set about a project on cleaning plastic from a beach and picked a nototrious beach. Hawaii.

The solution was simple. Vacuum the beach with a tube from a large vacuum cleaner.

However, how do you separate the sand from the plastic? Put what you collected in water. The sand sinks. The plastic floats.

Great. That will help beaches on an industrial scale where there is a huge problem.

LOVELY LITTER
But there's litter everywhere. On beaches and promenades by the beaches. We eat and drink all day. We throw away everything we use.

Look around the nearest room, building, garden, street. What do you see?

Wrapping for food. Drinks bottles. cereal packets. paper bags. Plastic bags. Bottle tops.

HOLIDAY CLEAR UP
On a small scale you could do this with a bucket of water.

If every family visiting the beach, instead of collecting shells, collected plastic, we could all make a difference.

REWARDS
Every visit and local who clears up can be rewarded with a badge or piece of jewellery made from part of a plastic bottle.

Cut the bottom off a see-through plastic bottle and you have a circular see-through badge or brooch and cut out a circle from a piece of abandoned paper and you have a name tag, buseiness card or advertisement.

Ships
Every ship should pay a plastic tax. Or carry its own rcycling bins and recycling machines, and run recycling classes. Insted of dropping litter, ships should collect it.

No need to worry about dirt on things you pick up making you or the family dirty. Plastic in the sea has already been washed. Plastic on the beach can be washed in the sea or the shower.

I used to collect shells as a child. It was years before I discvoered that shells were the abandoned homes of dead sea creatures.

CHILDREN CAN COLLECT
Today's children have another opportunity. They can collect coloured bottle tops and put them in a recycling bin.

Plastic should be collected and remoulded into litter bins.

RECYCLING PLASTIC INTO JEWELLERY
But where does that litter go? Not back into the bins then out to sea. Instead it can be made into bracelets and necklaces.

Classes for tourists. Free classes - if you collect a big bag of littler. Otherwise low cost lessons, or even, free but donations welcome. Make souvenirs of your holiday. Donate for the class. Donate for the jewellery you make. Take it home.

Or donate it to be sold or given away. People can buy it. Or take it home as souvenir for your holiday and  donate money.

You are often asked, 'What did you do on holiday?' You have an answer.

You did not leave litter behind. You helped clear it up.

Useful Websites
Problem
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/waves-garbage-are-washing-beach-dominican-republic-180969747/
Solution
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48551041/how-do-you-vacuum-plastic-from-a-beach

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker. If you need a speaker on the environment, I have won two levels of contests on speeches on the environment. I can speak on radio or TV or give an amusing keynote speech.

Plastics? Leave Only Footprints

I  won through the first level of the contest of a speech about the environment. Then the second level.

Later I was called to speak on stage at a training for would be entrepreneurs to demonstrate the ability to speak in public to raise awareness for a cause or charity.

I said:

When I walk around a room like this or the street in a city, I notice all the debris that human beings leave behind, on tables and under chairs and in wastebins. We are like snails which leave behind slime, a trail of evidence of where they have been.

It doesn't have to be like that. You must have seen pictures of the debris left behind after a major event such as a rock concert in a field. Piles of trash left behind. It doesn't have to look like that next day. Every monring you can walk into Disney World and the place is pristine clean, because a group of poeple have cleaned up.

Seeing the place look clean has encouraged everybody to keep it clean. In Canada they found that even two pieces of litter on the ground was enough to make others think everybody was dropping litter and it was OK to do so. So do your bit.

If a million people in a city all drop litter we have a mess, and clutter in the ocean. If a million pople use recycling bins or better still take litter home, which everybody does in Japan, we would have clean cities and clean oceans. You can pick up a piece of litter dropped by somebody else.

When I walk past a shopping mall I see beautiful bags discarded in bins next to the smart shops. Big tote bags with lovely handles. If the bags are pretty and clean I rescue them. They can all be reused.

Most of the things we throw away could be reused. A discarded t-shirt which is old or stained or no longer wanted because it has last year's date could be made into a tee-towel. Clothes which don't fit can be changed. A top which is too tight can be slit up the sides and made into a tabard or tunic.

When I walk around the ground floor of both public housing and provate condos, I see large items of furniture abandoned by the bins. Chairs and tables have a missing leg or are chipped or need repainting.

Singapore flag

A Singapore resident told me that Singaporeans like to throw out the old and buy new. But those items, if taken to Malaysia would be used by poor people or owners of second hand shops. Old TVs and screens would be fixed.

All the small items could be reused in our homes. In the Sixties it was fashionable to conver a glass bottle into a table lamp and you could buy a top to fix to the bottle. A plastic or glass bottle can be cut in half and made into a flower vase or a  pen and pencil holder.

A cardboard cereal box can be cut diagonally and turned into a magazine holder. At Chrsitmas I have seen ceral boxes advertising that the box can be flattned and reused as a board game which is printed on the reverse of the box. I hope that one day we will all be able to reduce the mount of waste from a house or building to only the contents of one small box a year, as has been done by at least one family who experimented to see if it was possible. Yes, it is. That is my vision for my future, and yours and ours.

Author
Angela Lansbury.

How To Keep Clean At Conference Food Breaks How To Handle Food At Conferences And Meetings

On my first trip to India in a five star hotel restaurant, my soup tipped over the dirty hands of the elderly man serving me. the next day my taxi driver offered me a slicc of some fruit he was eating. I said thank you. He passed it to me with his unwashed and visibly dirty hands. Twenty-four hours later I was down with Delhi belly - diarrhea.

 I was ill next day with diarrhea and missed one of my two days in the city which was the highlight of my trip, which had cost a lot of time and money.

Back in London, England, I was ill for ages.

For years I remembered both the two incidents of uncleanliness, plus the illness, but only rarely do I link the two, the dirty hands and the diarrhea. Now, writing this, I think back and wonder what I could have done.

The obvious answers are:

1 Carry drinking water to wash fruit.
2 Carry wet wipes to wipe my own hands before eating.
3 Explain my concerns about washing hands and fruit and handling food with napkins food long before I am actually handed food.
4 In public places put up a reminder sign over food tables pointing to hand washing and free water.

5 Before the refreshment break, ask people not to handle their own food or other people's with unwashed hands.

But sickness can strike you in clean countries, cruise ships, five star hotels, conferences and meetings.

Even if the food is prepared properly, what about that buffet style food? At lunch time or break time, out comes the finger food. UK or Singapore, it is the same at Toastmasters clubs.

Finger food in Singapore.

Refreshment Time Warning
Singapore is reputed to be a clean country. But what about when you are eating food? You are likely to eat food in restaurants, and at meetings, and at the homes of friends and business associates.

Too many people pass you a slice of spring roll, a piece of pie, or cake, using their fingers.
''Scuse fingers?" they sometimes say, hopefully.

Wales
Back in Britain, in Wales, at Writers' Holiday in Fishguard, at Fishguard Bay Hotel, at morning break time we are served cups of tea. All very clean.

But then we help ourselves to a plate of biscuits. I have rushed straight from the painting class into the adjacent dining room. Now that I come to think about it, I should be washing my hands after painting and before eating the break time biscuit.

UK
Sometimes, at Writers' Summer School, at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, England, you have a choice and can take biscuits which are individually wrapped. Why? At first I thought it was to stop the melting chocolate making biscuits stick together.  It seems like overkill.

Singapore
In Singapore, you are sometimes offered individually wrapped cakes. They have lists of ingredients on the back. Handy for those suffering from nut allergies or diabetics needing to avoid sugar or on weight loss diets.

But, isn't wrapping every piece a waste of time and resources such as paper or synthetic wrapping? Yes. - until you think about handling food.

Scuse fingers?

No, I don't.

Why don't I?

1 Firstly, you have your perspiration, and other people's, from shaking hands with everybody.

2 Secondly, you have just touched door handles and light switches and don't have clean hands.

3 Studies in school comparing groups of children who washed hands with those who didn't find a higher number of coughs and colds among the group who did not wash their hands. Even if you don't have a cold now, you could be passing on germs.

4 Numerous government signs and brochures warn everybody that those of certain age group, over 50 or over 60, are more vulnerable to infection. You and most of the group are able to withstand the risk of infection. I am not.

5 I am later in contact with relatives who are in recovery from cancer treatment and have an immune system which is down.

6 I am frequently shocked that those who work in the health service and can see the effects of illness and read the official advice and the evidence, fail to wash their hands, buy healthy foods, or give health foods to others.

What should they do instead?

1 If you are buying food and paper plates, remember the tissues. so people can tissues.
2 Supply hand washing or wet wipes.
3 Or tell people the location of the toilets and wash basins.

Hand Washing For Groups
If you are organising an event at which people will be sharing food and eating with fingers, have a bowl of water for hand washing and a towel or better still series of towels or paper for hand drying.

Serving Utensils
Provide serving utensils. You can cut the length of queues (Americans call them line ups) speed up service in a short break by  having food tables away from the walls, so that people can pass on both sides of the table. In this case, you need two sets of serving spoons in each bowl, in order to prevent those in a hurry from putting their hands into the communal bowl, or passing food back to others with unwashed hands.

Hold crockery with the finger tips of both hands, instead of the thumb and finger of your right hand with the thumb extending over the eating area of a plate or bowl.

We are bombarded with requests to save water and save paper in order to save trees. We can do that, but not at the expense of having days of work, and missing half our holiday and business travel trip through catching avoidable illnesses.

Maybe I should make myself a badge, and hand out badges saying, "I am over 50 and susceptible to germs. Please use utensils, not fingers, when passing food. Thank you."

I could just make two badges and leave them sitting on the table.

Singapore and Halal
One advantage of the halal restaurants in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia is that they have a washbasin near the eating area, outside the toilet area. This enables you to wash your hands easily.

Global hand washing day is October 15th. We should be washing hands every day.

USA
The American slogan is Clean Hands Save Lives.



Websites
Blogs
https://info.debgroup.com/blog/keep-colds-away-this-winter-with-an-effective-hand-hygiene-programme
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-not-to-pass-bread-pizza-slices-or.html

International Views
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Handwashing_Day

USA Official Advice
https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/index.html

UK Official Government Advice
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/we-are-counting-on-you-to-wash-your-hands

Singapore Studies
https://www.smu.edu.sg/perspectives/2015/05/27/washing-hands-saving-lives

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Cleaning A Suitcase And Backpack

Problem
A backpack is grimy.

Answer
Wipe it off with Jif (Cif in some countries) and a kitchen sponge and if necessary the plastic on the reverse.

Story
I wiped off the outside of a backpack. I decided to do the same to all the family suitcases. Even wiping the dust was an improvement. The luggage (Americans would say baggage) looked and felt cleaner.

Tips
Your suitcases and checked in luggage gets dirty all over when lying flat and tossed about on the carousel. some people think you are less likely to be robbed if your luggage looks old. You still need to wipe it off so the dust and dirt does not get on your hands and clothes.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

50p charge for toilets at Victoria ending

Problem
Two UK stations used to charge 50 p for toilets. (I recall seeing charges at Euston and Victoria.)
A family of five will not want to pay £2.50 to use the toilets once each. Even if you are willing to pay, you might not have the change and time to find somebody to give you change.

Answer
You used to have to use either Wetherspoons or McDonalds at Victoria. (Or pay or wait, or wait until you were on a train.) The charges are being withdrawn after complaints by the public.

This is good news.

Story
It was a real nuisance last time I was there. First a delay finding an alternative toilet. Delayed my arrival at an event. I was then annoyed with a coffee bar which had no toilet and wanted name to use the public paid for toilets.

Tip
Always go before you leave home, whether you need to or not. Same goes when travelling, any time you see a convenient and clean free toilet, use it.

Action
Ensure that pubs and stations have free toilets. Don't let councils shut toilets. Otherwise people are more likely to go on stairwells of car parks.

In Singapore they had problems with people going to the toilet in lifts (US elevators) in public buildings. Cameras were installed in lifts. Do what Singapore does, have the toilets on stations facing the ticket office so the toilet entrance is under observation.

Go before you need it. When?

Where Can You Find Toilets?
Railway stations.
Coach stations.
Larger Coffee Shops.
Pubs.
Restaurants.
Hotels.
Long distance coaches.
Long distance
Airport lounges.
Department stores.
Libraries.
Colleges.
Museums and art galleries.

On arriving in a foreign country, keep small coins in case you need them either to gain entry to a toilet or as a tip to the attendant.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4019380/Axed-50p-fee-spend-penny-stations-Network-Rail-ditches-toilet-charge-raking-37-5million-UK-stations.html

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

Workers Without Bedding In Hong Kong, and Preventing Bed Bugs In Asia

Hong Kong's Time Square is one of the most expensive areas of Hong Kong (island). Yet in the high rise housing above the shops, you find a mixture of the poorest and richest.

Doorway Rubbish
A doorway with a rubbish filled stairwell suggests worse beyond. Yet the steps were painted with colourful flowers, now worn away.

The steps leads to the office of a smart business. Inside all is elegant.

Beyond that is the home of a friend of mine. Renovated. Very local.

My family had written to request accommodation. The owner asked, 'Would Angela like to sleep overnight on a yoga mat?'

Now the other family and mine are used to trekking up Everest and Kilimanjaro and spending nights in tents and hammocks, sleeping in hostels.

Sorry. I will sleep on a one star hotel or a youth hostel. But I gave up camping after my first experience at the age of 16 when we trekked uphill in the dark with torches past cows to toilets made of giant tin barrels. I do not camp on floors, unless I have a mattress.

My family replied on my behalf, that, 'No, Angela would prefer, expect a bed.'

With great rouble and ingenuity, specially for my visit, an IKEA wardrobe is turned on its side to form a bed base. The area is extended with more wood. A thin mattress is laid on top and a new set of matching sheets and pillows.

The window curtain is removed and fixed to a rail to create the side wall, a bit like a hospital bed. The base of the bed is concealed behind a wall improvised by another IKEA cupboard and a giant fridge.

En route, I passed the constantly open door of a group of workers who appeared to sleep in bunk beds with no bedding. Compared to them, we are in luxury.

I hesitated to take a photo. I should have got into conversation, asked where they were from, and taken a group photo, printed it for them on a friend's computer, or emailed my friend a copy, catching their surroundings to show you. I can't so I shall have to describe it.

All I need to say is that I could see the bare board floor, the wooden bunk beds with no bedding (reminiscent of those photos of Auschwitz) the bare board table, and workers perched on low wooden stools.

I had mixed reports about the other inhabitants of the building. One person told me, "People work on building sites. They are used to being surrounded by rubble. Pointless clearing it up - they will just make more mess next day."

Another person told me: "The workers are very good. They try to clear up. I've offered them a small tip to clear up. But people from outside tip stuff in."

Wooden Floors
I remained bothered by their lack of bedding. What about wooden floors? OK, everybody has wooden floors. Some people varnish the floors. Some people stain floors black. Wooden floors were the fashion. Carpets need sweeping and rugs must be bashed out by maids or cleaners or you. If you have carpets you must take off your shoes.

In the UK in my lat parents' home the rules were and still are that tenants must carpet their floors to prevent noise. What sort of noise? Footsteps. Furniture movement - such as dining chairs. Drawers shutting and wardrobe doors and room doors. Echoing of voices.

Noise
In Hong Kong the traffic outside creates such a din that most of the time you don't hear the people living and working above and below. You are more likely to hear people passing, clattering footsteps and talking on the concrete stairs outside beyond the front door which opens onto the living room or main room. Or the sounds from outside your open window of the shouting revellers, clattering carts, horns of cars and taxis, tooting traffic and trundling trams. And the clattering of rain on metal roofs, cars, awnings, and metal rubbish bins all around.

Donating Bedding?
As you can imagine, I am not happy about the way the workers are obliged to live. Surely I or somebody else can obtain a job lot of sheets and pillowcases for them.

Would they be grateful? I can see that they might not want the nuisance of tablecloths, nor rugs to trip over. But would they want bedding?

When I arrived back in Singapore, I told a friend about the beds with no bedding. Her view was totally unexpected.

"They won't want bedding," she said. "It attracts bed bugs. Even if you give them new bedding, it soon becomes infected. The bed bugs would get in their clothes and bite everybody."

Getting Rid Of Bed Bugs
She sighed, "It's dreadful trying to get rid of bed bugs. We brought them back from a five star hotel. Bugs got into everything: the bedding, all our clothes, the curtains, tablecloths, behind the furniture, everywhere. We had to throw out all our clothes.

"Now, when we go on holiday, I buy a new set of sheets and pillowcases and even pillows. At the end of the holiday I throw them away."


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

A list of glass bridges in the USA, England, and China

I read about a glass based bridge being opened in China. A few months later up popped what I thought was the same story and picture again. On closer reading I found there was a second bridge. I am compiling a list in order to be able to
a) Know if an article is about a new bridge or one which already exists
b) To know what choice is available in order to visit the nearest or the one which is the cheapest trip or the one suitable for the season in which I am visiting
c) To know how many there are in order to choose the most interesting,
d) To pick the bridge nearest to other attractions,
e) Or to do a trip to all of them either for fun or photography or both.

Which is the nearest, the nicest, the cheapest, the most thrilling, the best to photograph?
Here are the current results (Aug 2016)
1 Grand Canyon Skywalk, USA. 59 feet long.
2 Zhanjiajie, China (opened July 2016) Longest, highest. Highest/deepest bungee jump planned. Nearly 1000 feet long/span.
3 Tower Bridge glass floor, London, England.


Trying to type the name of the place in China, I looked several times and had to correct what I first typed.
z - h a n g - j i a - j i e
I have been forced to insert spaces to prevent the automatic correction system changing the syllables.

This is not a guide to the pronunciation, just a way of checking you have copied and typed it correctly.

http://www.cnto.org/worlds-longest-highest-glass-bottom-bridge-opening-in-zhangjiajie/

If you are aiming to see the world's highest or longest, you clearly aim at the one in China. If you are living in the USA, and want the nearest to visit, the shortest or quickest trip, or the cheapest or easiest to organise, you might opt for the one in the USA. You might also want to start with the one in the USA if you are afraid that you will not have the courage to cross it or want to start with the easy one and work up your courage.

How safe are glass bridges? Is the glass as strong as metal or other non transparent material. Is the glass reinforced? Will the bridges remain intact in a gale, survive erosion of man-made parts, or disintegration of supporting earth and rock over time, under the weight of you or me, under the weight of large numbers of people crossing?

Imagine you are one of the first to cross the bridge, and it cracks!
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-glass-bridge-in-china-cracks-causing-panic-among-visitors-apple-daily

I also wonder how they keep it clean. Thinking of the mess made on my conservatory windows and house windows, how do you keep the glass clean? Presumably you need a maintenance programme. All those muddy footsteps, bird droppings, spiders' webs, scraping and scratching from shoes and metal tipped boots, blowing leaves and sand, melting snow or rain leaving streaks?

In order to reassure tourists (and probably safety authorities and investors) and make amusing, newsworthy photos, the glass bottomed bridges have been hit by sledge-hammers and had heavy vehicles driven across the bridge. Plus people being sick, having incontinence or diarrhoea, dropping ice cream and litter, losing their hats and drinks cans, sandwiches snatched by birds. Heart attacks mid-way.

What can you do with a trip to the bridge?
Challenge yourself.
Challenge your friends and family.
Prove your courage.
Act big to impress a scared younger sibling or girlfriend.
Act protective to reassure a scared younger sibling, child, your children, or a girlfriend.
Propose marriage in a memorable place.
Have a wedding ceremony.
What about scattering ashes? Probably not allowed.
Lots of articles, images, and videos on youtube.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37127725
http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/tower-bridge-glass-floor/

The latest glass bridge in China replaced the former wooden bridge. I tell myself I will only photograph it. Would I be willing to cross the bridge, and pay for the privilege. Once across, do you have to come back? Do you need to go all the way across then come back, or could you go to the mid point for a photo and then return?

If a bridge links an island, you have to come back. If it crosses a valley, you may be forced to cross with your group if everybody crosses and continues there journey from the other side. I remember in Canada crossing a bouncing rope bridge. You take a few steps and then somebody enters behind you and the bridge starts swinging and bouncing. In London we have a pedestrian bridge towards the Tate Modern art gallery, which bounced when it first opened, sending people into a panic. Presumably a big glass bridge is more solid.

If you just want to enjoy a view over the world from the comfort of your chair, here's a 360 degree view from Tower Bridge, London.

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/Glass-floor-360/

Angela Lansbury, author and travel writer and photographer