The Mother Country

One of the characteristic sights of Melbourne is the indoor shopping arcades that run through the downtown area:

I decided not to post about them because, dear readers, you were getting bored and I had more urgent things to write about. But on a recent business trip to London I saw exactly the same thing in the Piccadilly area, so I thought I'd take note of it:



My impression on the ground in London was that theirs were a little drabber and less elaborate than the ones in Melbourne, but from these photographs you can hardly tell which is in which city.

So when they say Melbourne is Australia's most European city, now it starts to make more sense ...