a picture of blackheath . .
a view from greenwich park . . looking towards the queen's house and the national maritime museum . .
steak and kidney pies . . one with gravy and one with parsley liquor . .
in front of the cutty sark, built in 1869 on the river clyde, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and she was one of the fastest.
she spent a few years in the tea trade before being switched to trading wool in australia. she's only one of three composite construction ships (having a wooden hull over an iron frame) from the nineteenth century remaining.
i wish morgana would tell me where the pictures are taken . . all i'm aware of in this one is that they were just at fortnum and mason (as denoted by the blue bags).
The last picture is the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace. We lived in London from January 2004-May 2004, but I somehow never warmed up to London.
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DeleteI've never been to London, and I don't feel drawn to visiting it as strongly as the girls. I'd much rather go to Germany or Italy . . :)
I did not think it was a very inviting city. Also, not very green. And not very stroller friendly at all!! Charlotte was just four, but she was miserable the whole time we were there. Jonathan liked it and Miriam was too small to remember. And it is soooo expensive!!
Deletenyc is so expensive too, and also not very stroller friendly i think, but we do have pretty trees and lovely gardens. the city has really worked on being "green" these past ten years . .
DeleteI only have some vague memory of NCY, did not spent much time there when I visited once. Your pictures always do show lots of green. London does have green parts, but, back then, with three small children there was not enough in walking distance from us. Maybe I would like it more now? I also could not warm up to the people there. But even that could be different now, who knows?
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