December 2009
8 posts
Columbia Road Flower Market. Spruce from Norway, holly, misteltoe and eucalyptus. While walking there I wished that I was living in London permanently. There were so many beautiful flowers and I couldn’t by a single one!
So many TV-shows and movies has been filmed in London. I have no idea how many. On Saturday we went looking for a couple of famous places.
The two first pictures are from Leadenhall Market or Diagon Alley as it is known in the Harry Potter movies. The last one shows the home of my favourite character through all times; the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Even the signs are written in Art...
Hyde Park in the afternoon. Wanted to see something else than buildings - I guess I’m missing the forrest back home. I found a little bit of London‘s wildlife and another Christmas market - the Londoners seems to be very into Christmas markets.
School is over and departure day is getting closer. Spending the last days sightseeing, but I guess you’ll never be able to see everything as London is so big. Here’s a few pictures from Royal Albert Hall and Victoria & Albert Museum (established in 1852 as South Kensington Museum and is today the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design). Definitely my...
While waiting for the Lighting-up ceremony at Trafalgar Square I went to the National Portrait Gallery. I wish I could paint like that. All the details in textiles and jewellery are amazing.
Then I continued to the National Gallery. Among Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Gaugin, Degas etc I found Akseli Gallen-Kallela. That was kind of a surprise. I didn’t know he was considered that good. And...