See the website for even more information.Ī selection of images some are mine, and some were supplied on a cute little promo USB stick along with an even tinier toy Smartcar in a box. Just turn up in person at one of the shops with your driving licence.
Special offer: the registration fee is free if you sign up before the year end and this includes 30 minutes of free driving. How nice it would be to just sling my bag in the back of one of these little darlings and drive myself home for less than half the price! I can see lots of opportunities for my own personal use, such as when I get off the Gatwick Express late at night after the tubes have finished and a black cab home to Holloway costs almost £30. Prices start from 35p a minute up to £59 for a whole day and this includes fuel, insurance, tax, parking and the Congestion Zone charge. The environmentally friendly hybrid cars save on costs by switching themselves off when the car is at a standstill at traffic lights etc, and are therefore economical to hire. There are only three boroughs in London at the moment but I am sure that very quickly these little blue and white cars will be as common as the Boris bikes. You can then drive the car around as necessary and just leave it parked anywhere legal within a car2go zone/borough. It's a much simpler system than other carsharing schemes available at the moment – with car2go you register as a user (see below) and to get your card which will then activate any available car you see on the street or locate using the smartphone app. They call it 'the future of urban mobility' and I agree I think it's brilliant. Yesterday I went along to Boxpark next to Shoreditch station to the launch of this brilliant carsharing service. Here's a link to it so that I can stop typing!Īfter successful outings in mainland Europe and the US, London has just become the 17th city to be served by car2go. I just found some excellent info about the area.
And of course, there's Belsize Park tube station too. The word 'belsize' comes from the french 'bel assis' meaning well-situated – the area being perfect for direct access into central London. There are 12 roads in the area bearing this name including a grove, a terrace, a mews and an avenue. I have a few pics of some of the old shops in Englands Lane, but none of the charming village area along Belsize Lane.
The new script extension was designed by Sahar Afshar, a type designer and researcher from Iran.Located in a triangle bordered by Chalk Farm, Hampstead and Swiss Cottage tube stations is the area known as Belsize Park and, seeing as I am going there on Sunday, I thought it was due a mention here.Ĭhecking through my photographic archive I noticed I haven't made that many forays into this area, though I have walked up and down Rosslyn Hill and Haverstock Hill many times and admired the robot-faced air raid shelter entrance, John Cooper's wonderful cubist (restored) 1935 floor mosaic at the Wharrie Cabmen's Shelter, a weathered milestone ( 4 miles to what?) and many old pubs hinting at the road's even older history. In 2017 TypeTogether released an Arabic extension to Athelas. Cyrillic characters were later added to the font family, designed by Tom Grace, and monotonic Greek characters designed by Irene Vlachou. It is named after a healing herb in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It won joint first prize for best Latin-alphabet body text face at the Granshan International Type Design Competition in 2008. Īthelas is included as a system font in Apple's macOS operating system and as a default font in its Apple Books e-books application. Released by their company TypeTogether in 2008, Burian and Scaglione described Athelas as inspired by British fine book printing.
Athelas is a serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione and intended for use in body text.