Totally gorgeous summer like day here in London town today! The temperature is already balmy +18 and people are smiling.
A stark contrast to today was a BBC2 programme last night called Filthy Cities presented by historian Dan Snow. It described in vivid visual detail of life in the discustingly filthy London in medieval times. I can assure you it was really disturbing and totally obscene. *shivers*
"Do you have to dodge the contents of bedpans or step over rotting corpses on your way to work? Well, you may have had to if you’d lived in London, New York or Paris back when they were filthy cities. In this immersive new series Dan Snow brings these cities’ stinking histories vividly to life from the bottom up. Taking the travelogue in a whole new direction - with extraordinary, hands-on demos and stunts and revolutionary CGI - he excavates the murky past in gruesome detail during defining periods in history. You’ll find out how each of these modern capitals was forged in the muck of the past, emerging from ‘filthy cities’ into three of the world’s model metropolises."
Next week it is Paris's turn to get the ye olde filth treatment, but I am not sure if my stomach can take it.
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