I walked my feet off in London today. I remembered to "Mind the Gap" and to "Look Left" and to "Look Right" and made it safely home. Phew!
After I pulled myself back together, I took another boat ride to the Tower of London and then walked the Tower Bridge:
This city is forcing me, a petrified-of-heights gal, to walk across a bunch of glorious bridges, just to say I did it. Extra chocolate is required.
I walked around Buckingham Palace:
GORGEOUS!
I spent some time walking through St. James's Park. It was a perfect afternoon! The ducks here were showing their... um.... better (?) sides:
I am not a flower child. I have no idea what plants are called or what they are supposed to look like, but...
... this was One. Gorgeous. Flower:
Future quilt alert?
They grown swans big here:
This swan's neck was as big around as my arm and its head could have reached my chin. HUGE!
At the end of the park, I saw this:
I was waiting for Cinderella to show up, but then I learned that it was the Whitehall Facade of the Horse Guard and maybe Cinderella didn't live there after all.
I walked on to Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus and took all of the appropriate photos. Before I took the train back to my hotel, I ended my search for chocolate.
Carpo. Wow.
I had a grande hot chocolate:
This is liquid love. Pure bliss. Dark, dark, dark, dark, and DARK!
Since I am a guest in the UK, I try to conform to all traditions and customs once I learn what they are. Is it considered rude here to jump into a cup of hot chocolate and lick it clean?
Since I wasn't certain, I refrained.
Back at the hotel again, I had a disagreement to solve. Do you see the bar at the top of the shower?
One of us thinks it is for a missing shower curtain, but the other one of us thinks (knows) that it is simply a brace to hold the glass wall in place. Now that we both know I am right...
The shower dials were different than I've seen in the States:
Oh, the places I've been:
After I ran the London 10K (or at least avoided the traffic delays), I took a boat ride down the Thames to Greenwich. I get a lot of blog comments asking how I get so much done. I travel all around the globe, logging 37,000 miles in April alone and being in the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western hemispheres all in the same month.
Today, however, I was in the Eastern and Western hemispheres AT THE SAME TIME!
After I pulled myself back together, I took another boat ride to the Tower of London and then walked the Tower Bridge:
This city is forcing me, a petrified-of-heights gal, to walk across a bunch of glorious bridges, just to say I did it. Extra chocolate is required.
I walked around Buckingham Palace:
GORGEOUS!
I spent some time walking through St. James's Park. It was a perfect afternoon! The ducks here were showing their... um.... better (?) sides:
I am not a flower child. I have no idea what plants are called or what they are supposed to look like, but...
... this was One. Gorgeous. Flower:
Future quilt alert?
They grown swans big here:
This swan's neck was as big around as my arm and its head could have reached my chin. HUGE!
At the end of the park, I saw this:
I was waiting for Cinderella to show up, but then I learned that it was the Whitehall Facade of the Horse Guard and maybe Cinderella didn't live there after all.
I walked on to Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus and took all of the appropriate photos. Before I took the train back to my hotel, I ended my search for chocolate.
Carpo. Wow.
I had a grande hot chocolate:
This is liquid love. Pure bliss. Dark, dark, dark, dark, and DARK!
Since I am a guest in the UK, I try to conform to all traditions and customs once I learn what they are. Is it considered rude here to jump into a cup of hot chocolate and lick it clean?
Since I wasn't certain, I refrained.
Back at the hotel again, I had a disagreement to solve. Do you see the bar at the top of the shower?
One of us thinks it is for a missing shower curtain, but the other one of us thinks (knows) that it is simply a brace to hold the glass wall in place. Now that we both know I am right...
The shower dials were different than I've seen in the States:
Top knob is for volume and the bottom knob is for temperature.
Several weeks ago I mentioned how difficult the paperwork for a visa to the UK was. It was; I meant that. I know now, however, that it was TOTALLY WORTH IT! My students at The Cotton Patch were amazing and I'm having so much fun on my holiday!
I need to rest up for tomorrow's adventures. Stay tuned!
1 comment:
That is a dahlia.
If you grow one in a pot you have to bring it in out of the cold every year.
Looks like a great time in London, I loved the place too.
Happy and safe travels
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