Hello all,
Well, it's the end of Wednesday for us here in London. It's been a long l o n g l o n g l o n g day! We woke this morning at about 5am due to the wonders of jet lag. I was starving, and my stomach though that I had missed dinner due to the time change. So, after lurking under the covers for another 30 minutes trying to go back to sleep we got up and got dressed and went for a walk! Roving the streets of London at 5.30am showed a very different side to that which I am used to. The streets were being swept, the air was crisp and clear and the loudest noises to be heard were the birds singing, punctuated by the odd diesel engine in a taxi passing us by. We spent a pleasant hour walking from Euston up to Camden Town and back, just in time for a cafe to open and serve us breakfast! Egg, Bacon, Sausages and toast were the order of the morning, all washed down with a jolly good cup of coffee. After that, a brisk stroll back to the hotel and the day began proper.
I had a project to do - my anthropology paper. Lets just say that I did it and leave it at that, okay? It took me until 1pm, much longer than I had thought or wanted. James had headed off to his conference leaving me in the hotel to work. Once I had the paper completed, I headed off into the outdoors once more. First stop was lunch, a cheese and onion sandwich, bottle of cola, and a bag of chips/crisps from Marks and Spencer. Such bliss! All this was eaten on the move while ducking in and out of shop windows to avoid the odd shower of rain. Oh, and in between all of this I took a bunch of pictures, though nothing very inspiring I may add. I had a picture mission today, and nothing was going to stop me!
I had been thinking about what I wanted to do for my photo project while I was here. After all, I have a show to put up at Starbucks next week, so my deadline was really here. Suffice to say that I started work on the idea that I had. It involves focusing on one particular landmark in London and the plan is/was to spend the next two or three days photographing it. After about 3 hours of work, I think I may have 4 good usable images. But I have to admit, I am not sure how many more things there are at this landmark. So we shall see how it goes tomorrow and in the meantime I will collect images for plan B! James joined me after his presentation at the conference (which went very well) and we had some more walking and sightseeing to do!
We headed down toward the Houses of Parliament, as it just seemed a nice place to be going. The sun was out, it was late afternoon and the light was just lovely. We spent a pleasant 2 hours walking around, covering Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, the South Bank and some of the bridges. I took a bunch more images for Plan B and, surprise surprise, we ended up in the pub around 7pm. It was a welcome pint of beer after all this walking and photographing!
Dinner was a short walk away to a Fish and Chip shop of all things. It was okay, but not wonderful. My tolerance for large amounts of fish and chips has faded as I have become older, and I have to admit that I felt like a beached whale after eating it all. And, truth be told, I still do, 2 hours later.... We walked back to the hotel afterwards, and are now just sitting in the bar chilling with a glass of wine each before heading to bed.
I am sorry that I don't have any images for you all yet, but I haven't had chance to download yet. I'll do them tomorrow morning and maybe work up a few images to post to Flickr. Then it is back to the streets again!
After all, tomorrow is another day!
Big love,
D&J
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