I’m a terrible blogger, as I’m sure you’ve all noticed…this is hardly a travel diary if I only post every two weeks! Still, I promise I’m doing my best and if it wasn’t for all the homework and peer pressure to go out and be social, I would be gracing you with daily essays of genius. Oh well.
I have pictures from the first week I was here, wayyyy back in the end of June! Shall we go rummaging through the not too distant past? Unfortunately it is late and so I will not be narrating much…I hope it all makes sense!London:
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, and the Eye of London, all in one.
Me, Enid, Grandma, and Mom on the Thames.
The Houses of Parliament.
I thought this was Whitehall but that may have been too literal...
As promised, the oldest door in Britain! 1050!
The ladies in front of Wellington Arch.
All of us in St. James's Park, with Buckingham Palace beyond.
Disneyland on the horizon?
Me in front of some gate or other...
The girls on a stroll.
Pelican making way for serious police business.
Awaiting the changing of the guard.
Marching band.
A little goose-steppey?
Classic.
Not such a great job during tourist season.
Floriferous shrubberies in St. James's Park.
Mom in front of the National Gallery.
Me in front of the awkward statue.
Cafe in the crypt. Recycling of space.
Cambridge: Darwin College I think?
Cambridgeshire and Essex (Hadstock, Saffron Walden, etc with grandma’s cousin Lennie)
- Grandma and me in an arch in Pembroke (where I eat meals).
Flowers in front of the Pembroke library.
King's Chapel from the road.
Peacock wandering around Little Walden.
Sunset over the fields.
Lennie's back garden.
Grandma and mom above Lennie's conservatory.
Hadstock church.
The oldest working door in England. 1080.
Lennie laughing in front of her house.
In front of the fish pond in Lennie's garden.
Not much head room.
In the Bridge End gardens before the thunderstorm.
Running to the church for sanctuary from the thunder.
I so wanted to see a humped zebra cross the street here...
Oldest publicly-owned turf maze in England...are you in awe?
Audley End from the gardens.
Grandma and Me in the deer park.
Grandma and mom in the Grecian temple...
Lavender in the kitchen gardens.
Mom and grandma in front of the lavender.
End of Audley End.
Largest burial mounds!
Atop the burial mounds.
Grandma and Lennie.
Me and Lennie, last day.
Oh, Kate. Thank you so very much for all your lovely pictures. So good to hear from you – I know you must be very busy. I wanted to ring you a minute or two ago and decided it might be a little late. All is well. Love to you. Grandma
By: umim on July 18, 2009
at 10:17 pm
i was watching pride and prejudice the other day and now after looking at your photos…:sigh:….one of these days the two of us have to be in England at the same time.
Those fields looks amazing and the picture of you in front of the lavender is SO pretty! Those pelican thingie things next to the palace are the creepiest looking things- i took a similar picture when i was there too.
It looks like your campus is just awesome, I love looking at all these photos. Thanks for letting me live through your travels this summer.
By: sarah on July 19, 2009
at 5:19 pm
Love the pictures, Kate! Thank you for keeping in touch with your blog and photos. What a treat! I can see that you are having a wonderful time and are really getting around. When do you have time for school?!
By: Debbie Iddins on July 27, 2009
at 9:02 pm