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St John's Wood

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    • Day 8

      Sixième journée : British Museum

      January 8, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

      Salut!

      Pour cette sixième journée, j'avais surtout prévu de visiter le British Museum. Heureusement que c'est une activité d'intérieur, parce qu'il a plu beaucoup! 😅

      D'abord, avant d'aller au musée, j'ai fait un détour. J'ai appris qu'Abbey Road, la rue rendue fameuse grâce aux Beatles et leur album du même nom, c'est à Londres. Je n'ai pas pu m'empêcher d'aller y faire un tour pour marcher sur l'intersection! Je vous insère même ici la vidéo que j'ai enregistrée pour l'occasion! 😂 Je suis aussi passée devant Abbey Road Studios, où l'album et plusieurs autres ont été enregistrés, et j'ai visité la boutique souvenirs juste à côté.

      En arrivant au British Museum, j'ai dîné au petit café pour me donner l'énergie nécessaire à mon tour des lieux. J'ai visité une petite partie du musée. J'ai observé toutes sortes d'objets historiques pendant environ une heure et demie, c'est-à-dire avant d'avoir la tête trop pleine! 😅 Les galleries retracent chronologiquement l'histoire des différentes civilisations présentes aujourd'hui dans le monde avec de nombreux objets exposés. Il faudrait y passer des jours pour prendre le temps de tout voir. Je me suis contentée d'une heure trente. J'ai surtout aimé regarder les bijoux et les sous. J'ai terminé en faisant le tour des petites boutiques à disposition des visiteurs.

      J'ai conclu cette journée en prenant l'air un peu. J'ai fait une autre ballade en ville accompagnée de mon fameux guide de voyage, cette fois-ci dans Bloomsbury (directement où se situe le musée). Il faisait déjà noir à ce moment-là et il y avait pluie intermittente. Résultat? Je ne voyais franchement pas grand chose à cause de l'obscurité et de mon parapluie, j'avais froid et je n'ai pas pris beaucoup de photos.

      C'est ainsi que j'ai passé ma sixième et avant dernière journée à Londres, les pieds humides et souffrant d'avoir trop marché dans la dernière semaine. 😅 On se retrouve demain pour ma dernière journée d'activités! Je repars mardi au matin et donc mon empreinte de demain sera probablement la dernière de ce voyage!

      À demain!
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    • Day 29

      Last day doing stuff in London

      February 11 in England ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      Today was basically our last day for the entire trip! :(( but that’s okay because we started off the day with something fantastic: Lord’s Cricket Ground! We were running a little late so we took an Uber there. When we got there we entered the gate and went straight into a museum. It was so so cool to see all of these legendary players’ gear and stories, and to learn a whole bunch! Now I know why the ashes are actually called the ashes. After a few more people from our tour group rocked up, our tour guide introduced himself. When I tell you that he was the most perfect cricket fanatic, kindhearted, British gentleman ever, please believe me because he really was all of those things. He knew absolutely EVERYTHING. He showed us all around the stadium, whilst telling us all about the rich history of the grounds. And to make it even better London weather decided to switch things up a bit and show some sun! Best. Tour. Ever. We’d also booked in a ‘cream tea’ (basically scones and drinks) at Lord’s tavern which was AMAZING and made me feel the most British ever. Then we strolled down to Abbey Road Studios and the crosswalk. Honestly, the crosswalk is very hard to distinguish. Like the only reason we knew it was THE crosswalk is because it was pretty crowded. Also poor traffic, constantly stopping for people to take photos haha. Then we decided to go to 221 B Baker Street - where apparently Sherlock Holmes lives. I don’t know anything about Sherlock so I was kinda just following Sarah but hey! There was a cool house with a cool little souvenir shop with a bunch of Sherlock stuff so I guess we were in the right place. Then it was time for me to be introduced to Harrods. I also had no idea what this magical place was at first but wowee that is a place and a half. With everything being costing an arm and a leg. Then to kill time we checked out both Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square, both of which were insanely busy. There were a whole bunch of Chinese New Year celebrations happening which were pretty cool. Then it was time for our final show on West End - Frozen! Now I’m not much of a big Frozen fan but oh. My. Goodness this show blows Wicked and Lion King out of the park. It was genuinely perfect. Like it was the most specky, the most entertaining, most energetic show ever. And the BAND ahh it was the perfect level and genuinely made me listen to the frozen soundtrack. So so good. It’s gonna be hard to let it go. Pun absolutely intended. Then for our last dinner in London we decided to be fancy by going to…another pub. Totally worth it. Some munching and crunching later, we took a bus back to the air bnb and zzzzzRead more

    • Day 3

      Off to Southampton

      June 1, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      Schlepping all my precious possessions from London to Southampton makes me appreciate not being homeless. Dianne being my equal and not one of my possessions means I have a partner in this endeavour. We make our way over road and sidewalk, curb and cobblestone, up and down stairs, in elevators, subways, and trains to our new abode by the sea. I booked the place and I knew that Dianne would critique the “Polygon Villas” eventuality. She started on the train ride by checking online reviews. The news, it seemed was not good. There was several reviews of the Polygon Guest House that rated the place as worse than crap! “Wouldn’t book my cat here”! Well Polygon Guest House is close in proximity to Polygon Villas, but it is an inferior establishment for sure. We have no cats here, a bathroom close by, albeit not in our room, and they are upgrading everything even as we speak. It’s not large but it is centrally located. We have been able to walk everywhere. Still though, Dianne is not entirely happy. Her main complaint is that our closet at home is larger than our room.Read more

    • Day 3

      Baker Street y Abbey Road

      December 7, 2015 in England ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      El último día decidimos ir directamente a Abbey Road a hacernos la famosa foto emulando a los Beatles pero antes paramos en Baker Street para buscar la casa de Sherlock Colmes.

      La calle mola mucho por la variedad de sus tiendas y el diseño de sus edificios.

      Después de localizar la citada vivienda y buscamos un bus que nos llevase a Abbey Road y lo encontramos. Nos hicimos la famosa foto con la cámara (no con el móvil) y tiramos para el centro.
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    • Day 2

      St John's Wood, London, UK

      May 31, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

      We made it! After a two hour delay, the pilot finally showed up. He had all the lame excuses covered, airplane went mechanical, slow ATC, sick passenger, you name it. I have used them all and could see right through it. Once Dave got on board we got moving pretty soon and we left the smoke filled skies of Calgary behind us.

      Dianne and I sat beside each other and over the course of our conversation she discovered that within the last year, I had lost the universal power adapter we bought on a previous trip. No problem, we could buy a new on from the on board duty free, just like last time. We can buy one, but not without being reminded of all the things I have lost over the past 40 years of flying. The list is long and Dianne rememberers every shirt, sweater, underwear, shoes, glasses, earphones, book, etc. 40 years is a long time and there are going to be some casualties.

      We spent the remainder of the day walking. St John’s Wood is a quaint English area. The buildings are old, many have the corner pub ( overflowing on a Friday evening). We walked through Regents Park ( one of Toms favourite walks). We walked down Oxford street sightseeing the high end stores. At the end of the day we had logged over 31,000 steps!

      Ladies; as you can see Dianne lost no time finding the elliptical machine to do her workout!
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    • Day 3

      Morning coffee at Regents Park

      June 1, 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      We went for a walk this morning around St John’s Wood and Regents Park and found a newly erected prison. It is to house a head of state visitor from the U.S. It is a large area, but it is still designed to hold someone incarcerated. Ironically the prison is situated between the zoo and the Grande Mosque of Regents Parker.

      Our next excursion is to Southampton via tube and train. Dianne doesn’t trust me to be able to gather all of our belongings before we check out so she is packing our stuff herself.
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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    St John's Wood, St. John's Wood, सेंट जॉन्स वुड, Сент-Джонс-Вуд, سینٹ جونز وڈ

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