London Calling!
Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 1:11 pm ♥ Filed under London 2009, Travel
I do believe that I’m due for an update. 
So, let’s talk about London. Lovely, lovely city — I was there on the week of March 15th. It was spring recess, I had never been there before, so I put 2 and 2 together. I went to the tourist-y places, the museums, the shops, etc.
on museums: I’m a huge museum geek, no lie! I usually spend hours looking through different exhibits, and when almost all of the museums in London are free of charge, it’s instant flail (as opposed to instant fail)! I ended up going to the National Portrait Gallery (really fascinating chronicle of British history through portraits), V&A Museum (by the end of the Stephen Jones HATS exhibit, I wanted a hat so badly), Natural History Museum (I have this unexplainable fascination towards taxidermy.), the National Gallery (amazing Picasso exhibition which had his rendition of Las Meninas!!! I might have died of happiness there.), the Tate Britain (halls filled with beautiful Turner landscapes), the British Museum (I loved the Parthenon pieces, but I loved the variety of displays.), and the Tate Modern (the “Poetry and Dream” gallery had some of my favorite artists like de Chirico and Magritte).
on food: Everybody loves hating on British food, but honestly, who can resist a good scone with clotted cream? And I honestly wish NY had Wagamama. Even just one would suffice. Oh, and two words: afternoon tea.
on other things I love about London: scones (and clotted cream), daffodils at St. James, the architecture, the conveniently placed “LOOK LEFT” and “LOOK RIGHT” labels on the streets, free admission in museums, the reliability (and cleanliness!) of the Underground, the toys section at Harrod’s, licorice macarons at Ladurée, Indian food, swans, markets, and Hogwarts Express at Platform 9¾.
I’ve uploaded a bunch of London photos here! Hope you like them!
Beautiful photographs. I really love their building architectures. The world is so modern now that I hardly ever see such buildings in my country anymore. The last one looked like a grand castle overseeing the sea.
Off to click out the photos on flickr. 
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Oh wow. Those are gorgeous photos! I have always wanted to visit London, their architecture is beautiful. The last picture is just breathtaking.
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Those photos are great!
I live so close to London, yet I barely go there. I should go more often (to art exhibitions), but I can never be bothered. The on;y reason I don’t like London is because it gets awfully busy. People push you out of the way. Well, in my experiences.
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Cindy reply on April 28th, 2009 11:09 am:
Yeah, I do know what you mean! I live in NY, and it gets crowded way too often, especially on the subway.
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Color me jealous… looks like you had a good time!
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Wow, I am sooo jealous! I’ve always always always wanted to go London… it hasn’t happened yet but I will someday, hopefully soon! I love that you’re a museum geek though, a lot of people these days don’t treasure museums anymore
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Cindy reply on April 28th, 2009 11:13 am:
I agree! I could honestly spend hours, days at museums — I wish more people felt the same way.
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Great photos, I want to go to London someday! Museums free of charge? I’m so there!
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My god– your photos are gorgeous…! Wow! This is such a great way to show off your visit to London.
Can’t wait to see where else you go!
-M.
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Your pics are beautiful! Are you using a DSLR?
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Cindy reply on April 28th, 2009 11:21 am:
Thanks a bunch! Yep, I use a Nikon D50.
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Your photos are lovely (especially love the daffodil one
). I love London and go there fairly often but I never get to actually see it.
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Wow, sounds like you had some adventure! Your photos are lovely by the way, I hope to one day travel to London myself. Lucky you!
PS: Why type of camera do you use?
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Cindy reply on April 28th, 2009 11:22 am:
London is a great city for travel; I do hope you get to go some day!
I use a Nikon D50.
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great and georgous photos
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wow this images are simply stunning. I can’t wait to go.
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Gorgeous pictures of London – especially love the shot of Buckingham!
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I love your blog! go visit mine!
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I just spent ages going through your flickr photos! Absolutley gorgeous! I can’t wait until I get a chance to see London!
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Wow, It’s amazing you got to go to london, It looks so amazing there, I loved the pictures & how nice it is there. My favorite picture is the one where is that you sitting down? That’s one nice picture. Also, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
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