Tuesday 7th April 2009
Lucy's friend Steven was arriving back from a three week stay in San Francisco and Lucy had promised to meet him at Heathrow. We travelled up together and I took the opportunity to go and visit a contact at the Guardian Newspaper, while Lucy travelled on to the airport.
The Guardian Building is really impressive, a security man on the door and an escalator that only moves when someone gets on it. Upstairs there was a reception desk where they gave you a visitor's card and then there were very interesting seats to sit on in pink, orange and green. It was lucky that I had to wait for Perri as everyone who walked in was a potential VIP. The only person I really noticed was a photographer with a very large camera. As he sat and waited for his contact, he was playing with a brand new motor wind - straight out of it's box...
When Perri eventually emerged she was not as I had expected, but very nice and chatty all the same. She led me to their 'relaxing area' (full of different types of squashy seats - all difficult to actually sit on) which looked out on the central glass atrium area. Raising your eye line, all the meeting rooms were clearly visible and it was hard to believe that there were meetings going on at that moment where the front page stories were being discussed - exciting stuff!
All too soon it was time to leave and after some slight confusion as to how to be let out, I was walking back to St Pancras in search of something to photograph.
1 comment:
Maybe you should start buying the Guardian, I hear it's quite good.
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