Although I've completed two of my goals in the last month or so (more on that later), we also just got back from an amazing vacation in London, so I thought I'd write about that this week.
I had been to London once several years ago with family, but Greg had never been and we were excited about wandering around the city and seeing the sites. We did a lot of the touristy things (Tower of London, some museums, a Thames River cruise, a West End show) but we also spent many hours just wandering the streets and taking in the city. Here are some of my favorite finds (By the way, Greg and I are bad camera owners and forgot to charge our real camera before we left, so we pretty much only have crappy cell phone photos.):
In Trafalger Square there's an amazing vertical garden that replicates Van Gogh's A Wheatfield by Cypresses. It's a little hard to see, but here's the original for comparison:
A very cool monument to women's roles in World War II.
This picture's hard to see, but it's one of my favorite random things we saw. At the intersections near Wellington Arch, between Hyde Park and Green Park, are traffic signals with a place to press for a walk light, and a couple of feet higher, a place to press for a horse crossing light. Awesome.
One of the stores near Harrod's had a massive window display dedicated to Alexander McQueen dresses to celebrate the retrospective that's current at the Met in NY. Absolutely stunning.
Other highlights of the trip included a performance of Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe (featuring Geoffrey from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...I kid you not) and second row seats to Pygmalion starring Rupert Everett and Diana Rigg. Honestly, does it get any better than that?
I think after this trip that London is officially my favorite city I've ever visited. We had an absolutely amazing time, and we're both glad to be back home, but in the back of my head I'm already making plans for our next trip. Besides, our leftover change and Oyster cards are neatly tucked away, ready to be reused. :o)
