See Life Size Elephant Statues In The Green Park in London, England, Promoted by Princess Eugene

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More than 100 life size  Wooden Elephants to publicize wild life charity CoExistence  in Green Park, London, England. See them while you can.  They were originally near Buckingham Palace. The exhibition is up for a month. Sponsored by Savills. 

Elephants carved by people in Tamil Nadu in India who live near elephants. 

Why in London? What has this got to do with us? A charity for elephants was created by the brother of one of the UK royals.

The London tube station Green Park is opposite one of the park's entrances, with station exits on both sides of the road. 

If you would rather go green, a cycle track links many places in London.

Pictures are in my Pinterest and on my Facebook page.

The elephants were previously in St James's Park. They have been and will be at various locations since May and will remain until mid July. Eventually they will be sold off to raise funds for the charity.

The headline sponsor is the Italian perfume house Xerjoff.

More shortly

Useful Websites 

ELEPHANTS

http://elephant-family.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Family

https://elephant-family.org/coexistence/

LONDON ART & TRAVEL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_Superhighway_3

PERFUME

https://www.xerjoff.com/

https://www.wikiparfum.fr/

Daily Mail

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9738085/Princess-Eugenie-shares-photos-son-August-visiting-elephant-sculptures-Londons-Green-Park.html?ns_mchan

Evening Standard

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Art lovers, train lovers and sewing machine owners: Spot the sewing machine on the mural at Rochor MRT Station and more art throughout Singapore

Photo by CCL-DCL in Wikipedia article on Rochor MRT.
What do you prefer? Station murals showing history? Or Modern life? A mural at Rochor station in Singapore combines both, a motherboard showing an old sewing machine and modern gadgets.

Rochor station is in the art district, near the LaSalle Art School. The art school members designed the mural.

Rochor is a comparatively recent station. Building it in the centre of the city was a challenge. The construction team had to shift the nearby Rochor canal to make room for the station.

If you visit the station, spare a thought for the art students and the builders of the station.

What else can you see on murals in Singapore? Next stop along on the Downtown line, you will see Elephants in Little India MRT.

Continuting north, the next stop is Newton with passengers in what look like spaceships or submarines. Two stops further on is the Botanic Gardens with a tree and lots of leaves. I have several more posts on murals and stations in Singapore, as well as. London and around the world. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Where is the sewing machine? Go down to the platform on the Downtown line and look towards the lift and look up.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochor_MRT_station
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/01/more-cute-artwork-on-newton-mrt-train.html
Getting to Singapore
singaporeair.com

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

Diwali welcome sign with illuminated elephants - and diwali dinners you can buy

Two features of Diwali signs are peacock feathers and elephants. Over the doorway of this community centre in Singapore you see the message Happy Deepavali and some peacock feathers.

Up the entry steps on both sides are illuminated elephant signs, again with peacock feathers.

Club Tampines West in Singapore.

Where to eat? In Singapore's Club Tampines West you will find a Starbucks and a McDonalds. Nearer the Tampines West MRT is a hawker centre - an indoor and/or outdoor food court. Most of them have stall selling a mixture of Chinese, Western, Malay and Indian food. For Indian food, go to Little India.

Tampines is on the East of the island of Singapore, near Changi airport. Little India is nearer the centre of the island.

In Indian Singaporean friend of mine told me, "Many community clubs in Singapore have Diwali dinners next weekend for their members and friends. Just google community clubs and diwali dinners. The price is usually about $8-10 and it is good value."

Diwali dinners and dinner dances are held around the world, at all sorts of places, from Indian associations to swimming clubs, in places such as Australia as well as Singapore and India.

Another friend told me: "You can buy food in the Tekka Centre in Little India. Shops all around sell costumes for your dinner."

Another place for clothes, sarees, and food, is the 24 hour Mustafa Centre, near Little India MRT and Farrer Park MRT. 

Useful Websites

www.haldirams.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldiram

http://www.haldiram.com/restaurant-locator

SINGAPORE

visitsingapore.com

singaporeair.com

INDIA

www.incredibleindia-tourism.org/India‎

https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Restaurant_Review-g304551-d7282437-Reviews-Haldiram_s_Connaught_Place-New_Delhi_National_Capital_Territory_of_Delhi.html

See my other post on ladoo, an Indian sweet.

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

Learning Italian for cakes and snakes, plus English in Scotland

French, and Spanish Sentences Russian
I am learning Italian on Duolingo. I had already heard some strange sentence in other languages. When I was a child we used to make jokes about absurd sentences such as 'la plume de ma tante' (the pen of my aunt).

A famous sentence about Spain is for for those learning Spanish, but English. When teaching English, one heard 'the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain'. (This came up in the Hollywood version of My Fair Lady, teaching English.)

The Elephant Out of The Room
At least both those sentences deal with everyday objects. But today I had to translate 'the elephant walks on the strawberries' in Russian.

Italian Cakes - and Snakes
Later the Italian possessives sentences had me in hysterics. I had to translate: 'My snake eats your cakes'.

How often would you need that? Well, I hear you asking. How do you say it?

Il mio serpente mangia la sua torte. No I haven't. It should be le tue torte. Or le vostre torte.

There, you see I have learned it. Perhaps that is the purpose of it. One kind of memory system is to remember totally absurd images.

Singaporean Sentences about Scotland
I can remember the absurdity of the answers I was given when I was teaching English as a second language in Singapore. In one class, I was teaching a lesson about what countries and people from those countries were called. One example was Chinese people live in China and grow rice. Another example was Scotland and Scottish people. The sentence I was given in class by a pupil was, "Scottish people live in Scotland where they grow rice."

Living in London, England, it was obvious to me that the people in Scotland eat porridge and some of them drink whisky. For the benefit of any readers who live in Asia. Scotland has mountains, cold mountains. In Scotland they they have pine forests and sheep. Sheep? Yes. Remember, The Edinburgh mill sells wooden clothes made from sheep.

The people in Scotland eat shortbread and potatoes. They do not grow rice.

Never let the truth get in the way of grammar.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Language teacher. Author and speaker.

Ceylon Tea & Elephants at World Travel Market, London

A photo op.

Instructions on tea making