21 AUGUST | London: Internet Cafe, V&A Museum
Well, it's 15.48 here (3.48pm) and I've got to jet off to the V&A Museum in just a minute (have to find out where it is, too), so this is just a quick note to say hi.
Hope everyone is well! :)
I wrote up long 'posts' about the last two days--didn't stay in Bath, not so long story, but too long to explain here; Edinburgh tomorrow which I'm THRILLED about :D. I'm traveling around London today by myself (although it took me nearly an hour just to get into downtown and then across town by tube), so it'll be wonderful. I'm so excited about the V&A; they have one of THE coolest sculptures hanging in their foyer that I think I've ever seen (both in pictures and real-life). Blown-glass woven together -- just gorgeous. Also, lots of wonderful costumes, etc. to look at, and the gift shop! :)
Let me know if any not in my immediate family wants me to pick them up something while I'm here! (Just jot down a comment or two. :D)
Things have been a little emotionally taxing the last few days (mostly internal), but I love this city, even if I can only take it one day at a time, and enjoy just a small portion at that. V&A for today is perfect. Here, let me find the website... V&A Museum
Well, much love to you all -- will write again probably either tomorrow or Thursday (I know of an internet cafe in Cambridge, but not necessarily in Edinburgh so it might be until then. On Friday I'll bring my notebook and write up the other days' entries, how 'bout? :D)
Cheers!
~ Anne
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Day 3 -- Day in London (1) (photos)
18 AUGUST | London: St. Mary Abbot Church of Kensington Gardens
PHOTOS!
These are photos of the church park (sorry, I've forgotten the name); let me see if I can 'Google' it. *wanders off*
Okay! So it's the St. Mary Abbot's church of Kensington, thus on Kensington Street (the High Street Kensington tube stop), and the gardens are partially memorial gardens (link). The first time I visited London was in March of 2002, with two friends, and we stayed in a hostel in Notting Hill for part of the week. The Notting Hill tube stop is just a couple stops away from Kensington Street, so I think we were exploring that day or something and stumbled across the gardens. They're in between the buildings, so you're secluded and yet out in the open, with breezy trees above and plenty of air around. You can't see the streets though, or the people shopping. Luckily, for that would seriously hinder relaxing.
Photo 1: Flower Bed
-- This was the bed of various flowers directly in front of where I was sitting. There is a walkway (sort of like a 'thru' sidewalk for pedestrians coming from the main street on the adjacent sides of the buildings/gardens) in the middle of the picture, walking away from me (people are there), and I had come from the walkway in the right of the picture leading to the High Street. The presence of fences possibly keeps the 'garden' area safe from people trekking all over it. And the 'memorial' aspect to it would definitely suggest enclosure. People were mainly just walking through to get to the other street(s) for the time whilst I was sitting there.
Photo 2: Columns and Walkway
-- This is the 'walkway' I came from and in through to get to the bench I'm sitting at. It's a slight incline while just under the columns and cross-beams but then levels out.
Photo 3: Purple and White Flowers
-- These were just behind me, in a large flower bed. The mixture of two different kinds of flowers works well here, I think. The tall, skinny purple ones with shorter, rounder white. Reminds me of a well-decorated, beautiful home for some reason. ;)
Photo 4: Breakfast!
-- I love this photo! Not only for the fact that's it's a 'breakfast' picture (sidenote. check out a 'breakfast'-themed blog called "Simply Breakfast" (here) for amazing food pictures!), but also because the deep, rich colour of the bench accentuates the white of the lid and the tan of the bag so well! Breakfast was a raisin cinnamon roll(?), the equivalent of a raisin cinnamon roll/danish combo, with a latte from Caffé Vergnano. So yummy! :)
Photo 5: Close-up of Flowers
-- Here's a close-up of the first flower bed. The picture is a little blurry, but you can see the intensity of color as well as the variety of colours. France, anyone?
Photo 6: Pigeons
-- These are my breakfast companions. *grins* They were very polite. Not too much graveling, not too much squawking. :D I fed them the bits of danish I didn't want. And the very crumbly bits.
Photo 7: Pigeon #1
-- The BRAVE pigeon who ventured the closest! Eeeee!
Photo 8: The Stone Path
-- Isn't this picture gorgeous! The colouring of the stone is just beautiful. It reminds me of many of the ancient burial sites I visited while in the UK back in 2003, as well as in Scotland that same trip. Very old stone, weathered. Gives it a very attractive green-grey glow. It also reminds me of The Lord of the Rings a LOT, for some, unknown-to-me reason. Perhaps the stone? :D
Photo 9: Memorial Gardens
-- This first picture of the small, circularly enclosed garden area across the walkway from where I was includes the gates out of 'my' garden area because the iron is lovely! The bright green contrasts well with the darkness of the fence.
Photo 10: Gardens, Close-up
-- Here, you can see the circular aspect of the garden itself with the central pedestal surrounded on the bottom with bricks, in a circle, and to either side are stone benches and hanging plants/vines/trees that make this garden in particular, very special.
Photo 11: Gate Top
-- Another shot of the gateway, this time with only the top showing. I like how bushy the green of the trees/plants are in the bottom half of the picture counteracted with the solid black in the top half of the picture.
TOMORROW: Photos of Bath (just a few; will have to find my 'old' ones for some real fun :D) !!!
PHOTOS!
These are photos of the church park (sorry, I've forgotten the name); let me see if I can 'Google' it. *wanders off*
Okay! So it's the St. Mary Abbot's church of Kensington, thus on Kensington Street (the High Street Kensington tube stop), and the gardens are partially memorial gardens (link). The first time I visited London was in March of 2002, with two friends, and we stayed in a hostel in Notting Hill for part of the week. The Notting Hill tube stop is just a couple stops away from Kensington Street, so I think we were exploring that day or something and stumbled across the gardens. They're in between the buildings, so you're secluded and yet out in the open, with breezy trees above and plenty of air around. You can't see the streets though, or the people shopping. Luckily, for that would seriously hinder relaxing.
Photo 1: Flower Bed
-- This was the bed of various flowers directly in front of where I was sitting. There is a walkway (sort of like a 'thru' sidewalk for pedestrians coming from the main street on the adjacent sides of the buildings/gardens) in the middle of the picture, walking away from me (people are there), and I had come from the walkway in the right of the picture leading to the High Street. The presence of fences possibly keeps the 'garden' area safe from people trekking all over it. And the 'memorial' aspect to it would definitely suggest enclosure. People were mainly just walking through to get to the other street(s) for the time whilst I was sitting there.
Photo 2: Columns and Walkway
-- This is the 'walkway' I came from and in through to get to the bench I'm sitting at. It's a slight incline while just under the columns and cross-beams but then levels out.
Photo 3: Purple and White Flowers
-- These were just behind me, in a large flower bed. The mixture of two different kinds of flowers works well here, I think. The tall, skinny purple ones with shorter, rounder white. Reminds me of a well-decorated, beautiful home for some reason. ;)
Photo 4: Breakfast!
-- I love this photo! Not only for the fact that's it's a 'breakfast' picture (sidenote. check out a 'breakfast'-themed blog called "Simply Breakfast" (here) for amazing food pictures!), but also because the deep, rich colour of the bench accentuates the white of the lid and the tan of the bag so well! Breakfast was a raisin cinnamon roll(?), the equivalent of a raisin cinnamon roll/danish combo, with a latte from Caffé Vergnano. So yummy! :)
Photo 5: Close-up of Flowers
-- Here's a close-up of the first flower bed. The picture is a little blurry, but you can see the intensity of color as well as the variety of colours. France, anyone?
Photo 6: Pigeons
-- These are my breakfast companions. *grins* They were very polite. Not too much graveling, not too much squawking. :D I fed them the bits of danish I didn't want. And the very crumbly bits.
Photo 7: Pigeon #1
-- The BRAVE pigeon who ventured the closest! Eeeee!
Photo 8: The Stone Path
-- Isn't this picture gorgeous! The colouring of the stone is just beautiful. It reminds me of many of the ancient burial sites I visited while in the UK back in 2003, as well as in Scotland that same trip. Very old stone, weathered. Gives it a very attractive green-grey glow. It also reminds me of The Lord of the Rings a LOT, for some, unknown-to-me reason. Perhaps the stone? :D
Photo 9: Memorial Gardens
-- This first picture of the small, circularly enclosed garden area across the walkway from where I was includes the gates out of 'my' garden area because the iron is lovely! The bright green contrasts well with the darkness of the fence.
Photo 10: Gardens, Close-up
-- Here, you can see the circular aspect of the garden itself with the central pedestal surrounded on the bottom with bricks, in a circle, and to either side are stone benches and hanging plants/vines/trees that make this garden in particular, very special.
Photo 11: Gate Top
-- Another shot of the gateway, this time with only the top showing. I like how bushy the green of the trees/plants are in the bottom half of the picture counteracted with the solid black in the top half of the picture.
TOMORROW: Photos of Bath (just a few; will have to find my 'old' ones for some real fun :D) !!!
Day 3 -- Day in London (1)
18 AUGUST | London: Internet Café (near Gloucester Road)
(GOOD GRIEF--it just took me 5 minutes to login to this account!)
Never mind that ... :) I'm here!
First off, it's raining, a little bit of a drizzle but enough to make me need to buy an umbrella. Next, I'm dashing about town buying odds and ends -- mobile phone, hair dryer, curling iron, coffee (:D) ... Stopped in a Whole Foods, too! Not nearly as helpful as ours back home, but anyways. Surprized to see it, and all.
Plans are thus--eventually make my way back east (spent 2 hours getting from where I'm staying to downtown London this morning--bugger of a trip if you ask me, which you shouldn't ;D); supposed to call Nicole and meet up with them (her and the girls she went to Stratford with) for the trek back. added. Romford is a bit out of the way, so traveling alone at night is a little sketchy. Best to do it with other people.
Tomorrow is BATH!!! (I'm so excited!) (Can't you tell?? :D) And I'm changing my plans to stay in Bath a couple extra days; before I was just going for the day -- last night, whilst sitting on the bathroom floor forlorn about the lack of countryside, I decided I'd switch those next two days in London for two days either in Bath or in a small town nearby. Stay at a bed&breakfast, that sort of thing. Besides, I actually have things to do in Bath, whereas for London, I was coming up short. Plus, I'll have plenty of time there on Thursday and Sunday coming up.
Whew! Next off is to find a loo, find the way to the right tube, and see if my mobile works yet. It's super cute, turquoise Nokia (pre-paid). :) (I'm such a girl.)
Visited off High Street Kensington (here, High Street is like the main street) the little church park where we went the first time I was here -- just the same as before -- very cute. Popped into Topshop and Urban Outfitters, but too crowded and too pricey. Not really in the mood for clothes shopping anyways.
What else ... well, it's really neat being here, for one,--Oooo, my phone just turned on! YAY :D Now I can text Nicole when & where to meet for the tube.
Oh, I was going to mention I love all the different words here. "tube" for subway, "queue" for wait in line, "way out" for exit, and one of my favs, "lift" for elevator.
I wrote a long bit yesterday whilst waiting at Bower House (where Nicole was working with others) manor, but I'll have to post it later -- probably tomorrow or Monday, and I'll backdate it. :) Sneaky!
Well, I really need to find a loo (bathroom :)) and get back towards the east side of London, and find an umbrella if at all possible. Sainsbury's, also, for I really want to buy this cute little birdhouse I saw advertised there for only £2 ($4.00).
I hope everyone is doing well! Please reply with comments if you want. :)
LOVE YOU ALL!
~ Anne
p.s. on the up-side, I'm very glad I brought all those clothes I packed -- it's chilly here, and I look very posh (well, except for my hair, but now I've got things for that.) So that's all good. ;)
(GOOD GRIEF--it just took me 5 minutes to login to this account!)
Never mind that ... :) I'm here!
First off, it's raining, a little bit of a drizzle but enough to make me need to buy an umbrella. Next, I'm dashing about town buying odds and ends -- mobile phone, hair dryer, curling iron, coffee (:D) ... Stopped in a Whole Foods, too! Not nearly as helpful as ours back home, but anyways. Surprized to see it, and all.
Plans are thus--eventually make my way back east (spent 2 hours getting from where I'm staying to downtown London this morning--bugger of a trip if you ask me, which you shouldn't ;D); supposed to call Nicole and meet up with them (her and the girls she went to Stratford with) for the trek back. added. Romford is a bit out of the way, so traveling alone at night is a little sketchy. Best to do it with other people.
Tomorrow is BATH!!! (I'm so excited!) (Can't you tell?? :D) And I'm changing my plans to stay in Bath a couple extra days; before I was just going for the day -- last night, whilst sitting on the bathroom floor forlorn about the lack of countryside, I decided I'd switch those next two days in London for two days either in Bath or in a small town nearby. Stay at a bed&breakfast, that sort of thing. Besides, I actually have things to do in Bath, whereas for London, I was coming up short. Plus, I'll have plenty of time there on Thursday and Sunday coming up.
Whew! Next off is to find a loo, find the way to the right tube, and see if my mobile works yet. It's super cute, turquoise Nokia (pre-paid). :) (I'm such a girl.)
Visited off High Street Kensington (here, High Street is like the main street) the little church park where we went the first time I was here -- just the same as before -- very cute. Popped into Topshop and Urban Outfitters, but too crowded and too pricey. Not really in the mood for clothes shopping anyways.
What else ... well, it's really neat being here, for one,--Oooo, my phone just turned on! YAY :D Now I can text Nicole when & where to meet for the tube.
Oh, I was going to mention I love all the different words here. "tube" for subway, "queue" for wait in line, "way out" for exit, and one of my favs, "lift" for elevator.
I wrote a long bit yesterday whilst waiting at Bower House (where Nicole was working with others) manor, but I'll have to post it later -- probably tomorrow or Monday, and I'll backdate it. :) Sneaky!
Well, I really need to find a loo (bathroom :)) and get back towards the east side of London, and find an umbrella if at all possible. Sainsbury's, also, for I really want to buy this cute little birdhouse I saw advertised there for only £2 ($4.00).
I hope everyone is doing well! Please reply with comments if you want. :)
LOVE YOU ALL!
~ Anne
p.s. on the up-side, I'm very glad I brought all those clothes I packed -- it's chilly here, and I look very posh (well, except for my hair, but now I've got things for that.) So that's all good. ;)
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