It’s January already, wow. It’s been
more than months since I came back from my little trip London, as always it was
fun and enjoyable. But this time we wanted to experience London during holiday
season. Winter Wonderland was this time our goal, but we also wanted to check
some other things, like Camden market. And not forgetting to take some time to
check our surroundings too.
My colleagues would asked me why I
love London this much, but it’s not only the city that I love. I just love how
I feel when I’m there, is much more to do with culture and people. They have
fantastic taste in fashion and music, also they are such a nice people. I know
the first time I was a bit taking back when people started to call me ‘love’ or
‘sweetheart’. I didn’t had (so far) any
bad moment during my stay in London. However I would like to explore more of
England. I would love to visit Cornwall and check every place in Yorkshire.
Hopefully maybe next year during a summer vacation (fingers crossed). I also
feel very blast to have friends who are crazy like me about London and British
culture. I’m not one of those who is okay being alone during vacation, I love
to share and explore with someone.
Okay, back to my last trip to
London. You know I keep forgetting things about the moments that got my
attention or/and made me smile about it. However next time I’m going to take a notebook
with me, just like my clever friend J
During our last trip to London we
visited Hyde Park Winter wonderland, J it was such fun. Tasting delicious cinnamon/sugar
crepe, mulled wine, hot chocolate with baileys (yummm), live concert, beautiful
Christmas decorations, trying not to lose each other, giant wheel....yes the
giant wheel... I chickened out first. Sorry I do have high fright, but with the
help from my friends I did it! No ice skating, though. Maybe next time.
I love the metro. There was an
elderly man who gave up his seat to the woman who was about same age as him.
That put a smile to my face, what a gentleman. And the two sweet adorable kids
wanted to gave their seats to that elderly man....awwww.
Camden market, yes we did managed do
go this time (second time for me) and explored more. I saw new things and I
loved it. Stables Market it’s worth for the second look, also the famous Amy
Winehouse statue will welcome you. Another
thing I loved about the market was this sweet lovely cafe which was decorated
in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme and had
delicious cakes and pies . Btw are you a fan of jewellery and vintage clothing?
Well then Camden market is definitely your
next favourite place. I seriously adore their fashion understatement.
Nothing Hill was very new to me. But
ever since I saw the documentary about Twiggy and the vintage culture in
Nothing Hill, I wanted to visit. I’m glad I did, sadly it was very rainy day so
we didn’t stay longer. But I’m not done yet, so next time I’m going to try to
find more information about Nothing Hill.
Oh, not to mention we also did go to
the Tower bridge. Yes, it’s a place that every tourist plans to visit. But I
did saw on the news about this red poppies and the story behind it. So that intruded
me, this is not something that will happen any time soon, maybe after another century...
We were just in time, cause they were
already started taking off each poppies. Also I saw a lot of coins, does anyone
has an idea why?
We went back to St. Paul’s Cathedral
and went to the same cafe to have some drink and relax. I think that was the
most enjoyable time of our trip. Just take some time to relax and observe. Also
we went to the Tate Modern, they had small Christmas market. Did look some
exhibitions, I think our friend, Dagmar, enjoyed it more though. And to go to
the Tate Modern you probably need to cross over the bridge ‘Millennium Bridge’.
There are many things I might have
forgot to mention it, but sometimes you are enjoying the moment so much that
you forget to take picture of it or writing down about it. But next time I
think I shouldn’t wait this long to type my experience down. Bottom line is
that each trip will make curtain impact on you. Making new stories and taking
pictures. Next time I really wanna, like a friend of mine said, just sit down
in a cafe and take some picture of people passing by. That sounds a good idea.
Probably in black and white, I love black and white.
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
© Arzu Guzel
Behind the camera - By Rebecca
And by my friend Dagmar
