Nyboder in Copenhagen
Nyboder is a very nostalgic place for me to visit. I am reminded of history and people lived there in small flats with many children. Among them my grandmother more than a hundred years ago.
Photo Challenge of Things to Come
Pingback to the weekly theme on a Photo Challenge “FUTURE” I have fought again with insomnia and I found that at my 6 days stay in London I slept so well. Coming home the problem started again. I am very tempted to write from afternoon till late evening. In London I didn’t as it is difficult to make proper posts […]
John Barkers and Whole Foods
This time at my visit to London we stayed at a hotel in High Street Kensington just opposite the Kensington Gardens. On our walk to the tube station of the same name as the street I was struck by the beauty of a huge Art-Deco building. The name Barkers was printed high on top and some of the floors is now […]
Strand – a short distance from Trafalgar Square
The crypt of St Martins-in-the-Fields is our favourite place to eat. You get traditional English dishes in a healthier edition and always plenty so that you can go on for hours. Many concerts are held in the church, mostly baroque, and we were lucky to arrive on the last day of Easter to hear Handel’s Messiah. Around the corner is Charing […]
The Joys of the Free Museems in London
And some special exhibitions spring 2016 Staying at the attractive Kensington as a tourist it’s easy to take a bus to Knightsbridge and from there walk to the Victoria & Albert Museum also called the V&A. It’s huge so priorities have to be made or more than one visit is also a possibility. This time I went to see […]
Walking through the security check today
Normally this is just never fun, but something you just want to come through and forget about it immediately. Today was different at the very busy London Stansted airport. A massive number of people were crowding in long queues and suddenly a deep and loud voice of an official is heard like a street trader at a marked place trying […]
Free sightseeing in London – A Church in Kensington
Just opposite the Kensington High Street tube station a beautiful church in the 13th century English Gothic style. It’s drawn back a bit from the wide pavement in a busy corner of two streets. In front of the church you see a WWI memorial decorated with wreaths of red poppies, the symbol of loss of soldiers in battle and beside […]
Free Sightseeing in London – the parks
So much can be enjoyed in London for free. One possibility is the parks of Central London. The sculpture of Peter Pan Where Kensington Gardens meet Hyde Park the sculpture with Peter Pan and the figures of the children’s book is hidden. Nearest tube station is Lancaster Gate not too far from Kensington Palace where Princess Diana lived. I […]
Vintage Posters
In my childhood these posters could be seen in waiting rooms at doctors and dentists. These are ads for our national railway in Denmark called DSB.
Photo Challenge
“Share a photo inspired by a poem, story ” from the Photo Challenge “Half-Light” from the Daily Post, a recurring event on Fridays. Ode to a Grecian Urn by John Keats the fifth and last verse: O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out […]
From one Heart to Another 