Nice hotel, interesting location

My visiting friend K (Vol-K perhaps?, she is a UT alumna) had to change hotels this weekend as she needed to be in one where other colleagues are staying. As we took the taxi from her old hotel to the new one we passed the Danish embassy.

Now normally it's pretty cool to be staying in an embassy-rich part of town, but what with Danish Embassies going up in smoke at such an astonishing rate, maybe these are not the folks you want as your near neighbours... and you certainly don't want to be hanging out with the folks that seem to frequent Danish Embassy environs these days.

It was all pretty quiet, but I said I wanted a picture before we started on a site seeing tour of London (more about that in another post) so we went back that way - about a block and a half from her hotel. The hotel staff said that there had been lots of excitement on Friday, but not so much on Saturday or Sunday.

Protesters were across the street from the embassy, cops out front of the embassy, facing off across the road. People were chanting and speaking through megaphones, but I didn't see any pictures like these shown here at 6MB and I didn't hear any nasty, violence inciting chants as described in my previous post.

I wanted to get some closer shots, but the Vol-in-Law and Vol-K said that we were quite close enough.

Here's what we saw:


Cops in front of the Embassy, a handful of protesters across the road


More cops coming


Cops just having a friendly chat (?) with a passer by