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    • Beneath the Heath 🌳 & Camden Market

      June 19, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Busy! Seems to be tourists everywhere today. Journeyed on the Northern Line to Hampstead: the deepest tube station in the underground system. It has lifts because there are over 320 steps to the platforms!

      I intended to do a walking tour around Hamstead but decided to go alone and just have a wander around today! It is such a pretty village which is so close to Central London. The Hamstead Heath is also part of this area. George Michael used to frequent that often. Say no more 😝

      On my way back I stopped off at the Camden markets. They were insanely busy which was probably more annoying than fun. I dodged the crowds the best I could and enjoyed a toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream… It was delicious 😋

      I started to feel a little flat today due to the fact that our hotel is not really that nice and I felt a bit angry 😠 again that the Airbnb had cancelled at Kensington which would have been a much nicer area. Don’t get me wrong, I am trying to turn lemons 🍋 into lemonade and I’m sure that will override this feeling. 🤞

      There is also a full week of train 🚊 strikes to occur from Tuesday in London which is kinda annoying as well… 😕👎🏻💩
      I never quite understand public transport strikes because it really affects the general public more than anyone else. In a city like London where there are international travellers trying to enjoy their long overdue holiday after the pandemic it seems pretty selfish to me. 🙅🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

      Oh well… Them‘s the breaks! Mamma Mia: Tge Party 🎉 tonight should lift our spirits!
      🥰🕺🏼
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    • Day 2

      Tag 2 - Camber Lock Market Highlights

      August 10, 2023 in England ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Hier haben wir so viel Zeit verbracht ❤️
      Light Up T-Shirts, Hänsel und Gretel, Fotoshooting (abgesehen vom Beine kreuzen mit Korsetts 🙄) und mein neuer, wundervoller Rucksack waren aber meine Top- Highlight 🥰😍❤️Read more

    • Day 9

      Camden & Cathedral

      August 5, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌧 17 °C

      We love the London busses. £1.75 for unlimited journeys when tapping on within the hour, how good! Consequently, on Saturday we covered more ground then the other days and we were thankful for it because our feet had done some kms after the week so far. We bussed straight up to Camden Market in search of some more music, food and culture which we found wandering over the Lock and through the endless shops and stalls. I couldn’t help my magpie ways and purchased a little ring for my collection. Concurrently, Vikum ate his way around the free chicken tasters being offered as enticements…possibly the same stall twice? (hard to tell, there was lots of food stalls 😏). For lunch, we scrounged the Yorkshire (Pudding) Burrito that I’d had saved on my Google Maps for about as long as we’d had the flights to England booked…it was delicious despite it’s novelty factor. V a little underwhelmed, however he’s less of a roast dinner person than I am, I would say. After attempting to find a decent coffee at Turkish coffee spot, we left with traditional coffees that were more sour than we could manage and continued our ongoing battle to find decent coffee somewhere (I am always keeping an eye out for Aussie or Kiwi run coffee shops). Onto another bus we carried on to St Paul’s Cathedral which was unfathomably wonderful. The mosaics though not part of the original cathedral where my favourite and taking the 582 steps up to Dome galleries to see the inside structure of the dome plus the views over London was worth every step. Vikum found a pub nearby for an avo pint and then we continued our mini-crawl to another pub which we found under a railway arch with a seat right on the Thames, and again onto a quiet hotel bar for some respite. We crossed London Bridge and strolled along The Queen’s Walk to Tower Bridge, passing the Tower of London itself where there were no heads on pikes, but it had been a long day…so there might have been one head on pike soon enough (V was hangry) had we not found our way to an restaurant for a curry dinner - so delicious. The korma was much much sweeter than we’re used to and the Tikka Masala was next level. Vikum let me drag him to one last site on my list: a piece of the old Roman Londinium wall before running for our bus home where we met Trajan. Finding our way home we again opted for a bus, a longer 45min journey with some more sightseeing of central suburbs. We crashed for the night feeling accomplished in seeing so much of London.Read more

    • Day 4

      Day 2

      May 26, 2023 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      Pour bien commencer cette vraie première journée nous avons pris le petit déjeuner face au jardin en dégustant des spécialités locales ( les croissants surgelés, qui sont très bons !), puis nous nous avons pris notre tchou tchou qui nous a mené directement à la gare de Victoria dans laquelle Callista eu une soudaine envie de café frappée qui suite à un défaut de prononciation s’est avéré être un thé glacé aux épinards🤢🤮… Pour nous remettre de nos émotions nous avons visité la Saatchi gallery, très jolie gallérie contemporaine où une certaine haine du Brexit était exposée. Par la suite nous avons testé le McDo Londonien de Kings Road et QUELLE DÉCOUVERTE, le personnel nous accueillait avec un large sourire et il coûtait deux fois moins cher qu’en France !!!
      En nous baladant au bord de la tamise nous avons vu le fameux MI6 et un canard.
      Arrivés Vers Soho, Oxford Circus etc nous sommes passés à Liberty avant de fuir le monde vers Camden ou César a craqué pour un burritos ( qu’il surveillait avec attention sur la photo…), puis nous nous sommes baladés dans Camden et son énorme marché !
      Actuellement dans le train vers Purley nous comptons DORMIR après cette grosse journee !!
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    • Day 12

      Arcade

      July 15, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Mitten in Camden Town haben wir einen unterirdischen Freizeitpark mit jeglichen Spielangeboten und sogar einer Achterbahn gefunden😱😁 Natürlich mussten wir uns an einigen Dingen versuchen, so z.B. an Motorradrennen, Air Hockey, Basketball, Axt-Wurf und Just Dance (Noemi hat in der Hälfte von Jonas's Song übernommen und das Spiel für ihn beendet🤣)! Äxte werfen ist nicht Noemis Stärke, ihre bleibt mit dem falschen Ende stecken oder klatscht an die Wand anstatt aufs Ziel😁👌 Dafür glänzt Jonas mit super Treffern🖤😎Read more

    • Day 1

      Tag 1

      March 19 in England ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      Am ersten Tag sind wir früh morgens von zu Hause nach London geflogen. Leider haben wir beide in der Nacht nicht viel Schlaf abbekommen, sodass wir beide seeehr müde waren. Deswegen ließen wir es am ersten Tag entspannt angehen.
      Es ging nach Camden und dort zum Market, zum Primrose Hill und dann erkundeten wir Londons schöne Parks und Gärten. Als wir dann in unserem Zimmer angekommen sind, sind wir auch eigentlich direkt eingeschlafen, um ganz viel Kraft für die nächsten Tage zu sammeln. Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf unsere Erlebnisse in London 😋
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    • Day 81–84

      Last stop in London

      October 21, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

      Before heading back to Belgium, we stopped in London one last time! We strolled around busy Camden, walked around Hampstead Heath Woods and had a last Sunday Roast 🤤 . We're sure going to miss the UK's nature and traditions!Read more

    • Day 25

      Camden Town

      July 9, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      Last full day in London so we took the tube to Paddington where Sharon wanted to find a unique clock.

      The clock is high up on a wall over the footpath and has an image of a man in it busy cleaning and wiping inside the clock. When he wipes the hands disappear and so then he realizes what he has done so he draws them on the face again on the actual time. Very clever and entertaining.

      After this we walk for a few kilometers to Camden Market. We went there with Melissa about 11 years ago.

      It is a hugely popular market with many many pop-up food stalls. Our selection was Vietnamese chicken baguettes which were yummy.

      Amy Winehouse is celebrated here. She must have come from this area. The crowds are massive, and you feel choked after a while.

      At 4:30pm we boarded our canal boat the Jenny Wren. It departs from an active lock that is over 100 years old.

      It took us up the canals past the zoo, Lords cricket ground and to a part of the canals called Little Venice. You get to see some huge mansions with vast gardens. One recently sold for $A160,000,000!

      What is a bit disturbing are the homeless people living in tents along the canal. If fact everywhere we have travelled in London, you see rough sleepers. On the tube it is not unusual to be approached for food or money.

      Back to Camden Market and we have had enough of the crowds, so we headed back to Bethnal Green.

      We enjoyed the summer sunset from our balcony and started packing up. Time to move on tomorrow.
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    • Day 59

      London Day 1

      August 16, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

      Woke up in Londonn at around 8:30am! And i was starving, so after dropping my bags off at the hotel that I will stay at for the night, I went over to find breakfast at a little café. I opted to get some smoked salmon eggs benedict 😋 and read my book as I ate breakfast. After that, I took a peek over at Hyde Park which is the area that I was staying at. It’s huuuuge! I only walked around for about 20 minutes and I don’t even think that I saw a tenth of the park. But the section that I did see was gorgeous! It had a little fountain and everything. The whole park was quite well maintained. After a short stroll, I walked over to Camden Market which was about an hour and 15 minutes. I stumbled upon a trapeze/circus school?? Which was random, but fun to watch for a little bit. I got to the market and looked around for a loooooong time. Funny considering that I didn’t end up buying anything (which I do regret now) but it was massive! I believe that it used to be a horse market or something. But yeah there’s endless stalls, I definitely didn’t get to check all of them out. But they had everything- clothes, jewelry, food, souvenirs, and so much more than that. I’d gotten some chicken dumplings for lunch, and a pastel de nata as a little dessert. After the market, I took the bus back to the hotel to check in. Except I fell asleep on the bus and stayed on for like 15 more minutes past my stop…. Oops. So then I had to walk for about 30 minutes back to the hotel. After I got my things settled in my room, I went to go to the Borough market to meet Jenny, who’s actually someone from Richmond! We connected over instagram through a mutual friend- which we happen to have quite a few of- but we’ve never actually met ourselves. We shared some overpriced strawberries covered in chocolate (€8=$16ish CAD)- but it was so so so delicious, don’t regret that choice. We did a lot of walking around central London, which I hadn’t seen yet since I’m staying a bit further out. We grabbed some chipotle for dinner- which is kind of comical to me that I’d get that on vacation. We saw the Tower of London, and walked over the Tower Bridge a couple of times. It was a really nice time spent!! Jenny was feeling tired which is so reasonable because she just arrived today, so she headed back to her hostel. Then I decided to walk from the centre of London all the way back to my hostel (2.5 hours walk ish). So I walked along South Bank, which is kind of by the water. Saw some street performers, and walked by many of the sightseeing-y things such as the London Eye and Big Ben! My feet and legs were very very tired by the end of the day. 45,784 steps in total today folks. After, I did a solid load of “laundry” which is just me washing my socks and underwear in the sink👍🏻👍🏻Read more

    • Day 2

      Dimanche à cameden

      September 24, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      La suite de la journée se poursuit à Camden market. Cet endroit est toujours aussi plaisant l'ambiance, le canal, l'architecture... on est définitivement toujours aussi fan de cet endroit. On est dimanche il y a bcp de monde mais il y a aussi un petit marché, qu'il n'y a pas d'habitude et c'est super sympa.
      On fait le tour de long en large, on tente de retrouver notre petite boutique de thé mais à priori elle n'existe plus, dommage ! Bref on passe un super moment !
      À part quand un oiseau s'est oublié sur le bras de Caroline !!! Beurk beurk beurk....
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    Camden Town, Camden, קמדן טאון, カムデン・タウン, 캠던타운, کیمڈن ٹاؤن, 康登鎮

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