Category: art
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74. Day 10 in England: Kensington Gardens and the Victoria & Albert
The African Fashion exhibit was fantastic! I took SO many photos, but these are some of my favorites. Huge apologies for no info about designers and artists. Entering the contemporary part of the exhibit, I was overwhelmed with the variety of fabrics and creative design. Here are just a few photos. I urge you to…
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73. Day Nine in England: Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens)
I’ve always wanted to go to the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens)! So that’s what we are doing this very day. Picnics packed, route planned, here we go! Guess who came to lunch. This magpie! Also, the Eurasian green woodpecker nearby. Kew Gardens is lovely but for the jumbo jets flying quite low overhead every…
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71. Day Seven in England: A Walk Along The Thames, Trafalgar Square, Lunch in a Crypt, and The Tate Modern
We just happened to land in London on the first days of a heat wave that would build over 10 days to well over 100 degrees F. As you can see, the sky is brilliant blue, there were some fluffy clouds, and it wasn’t unbearable. Our London time was pretty unstructured, with ideas of things…
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69a. Day Five in England: Car Boot Sale, Cromer, Coastal Walk to Weybourne
Christine and I set out early in the day for a car boot sale in either East or West Runton, I’m not sure which. I found a cute little sleeveless summer dress (looking toward some very hot weather coming up in London, and me without any summer clothes) for £1, and Christine scored some this-and-thats.…
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68a. Day Four in England: Early Morning Walkies, A Very Good Bookstore, Down the Rabbit Hole with Alice
The real treat of the day was a visit to Peter’s Book Shop! Christine was pretty sure that a goodly share of the book in the store came from her house over the years. (I’m sorry I didn’t get a proper photo of Christine’s bookshelves that she built herself, and which are stuffed with books,…
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65. Day One in England: Early Flight to Norwich, Sainsbury Collection, Norfolk Broads, Sheringham
We had a VERY early start to our day, up before 4 AM (yes, it was already firmly light outside) to catch a 6:45 AM flight to Norwich. We had the front of the upper deck to ourselves, and it was jolly lovely to sightsee a little of Aberdeen on the way out of town…
Debkakes in the UK 2022 