Sunday, July 31, 2011


Saturday, July 30, 2011




Friday, July 29, 2011

 


 

 




the old boys school

Thursday, July 28, 2011

 




old school change rooms

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Monday, July 25, 2011



Sunday, July 24, 2011

 


 





waiting for london film to be developed
in the mean time, shots from a bolgart via new norcia trip a few weeks back

Saturday, July 23, 2011

 


home again

Thursday, July 21, 2011



home for the last two weeks




last day, home i head

spent the day wandering and soaking up the last bit of london
        i liked that strangers help parents with their prams getting up the stairs in the tube
        i was paranoid thanks to damian's "forty minutes on the tube is equivalent to smoking two   
        cigarettes"  fact - cheers my friend
        ate my last banana for a while it seems
        spotted many a apple and pear trees
        decided that goodge st station had the best tiles out of all the stations
        felt i got good use out of my four pound umbrella


evening concert show -  lion king - with brodie
       had  'box seats' and an actor came into our box to wave a bird around!


the digital journey ends - will have film to post soon, swoon



thank you for having me you wonderful friends xx 




Wednesday, July 20, 2011

 


 my favourite wall of turners  


 


bloody pigeons are annoying here

 

bye tate

 


wet and drizzly trafalgar square


breakfast here with larz
        such a beautiful old building
tate britain
       nice to see the Turners
dover street markets for a leather good purchase (ta larz x)
national portrait gallery
      bp portrait awards are on - worth seeing
soaked up some london sun on the steps of st martin's
walked to tate modern for  final squiz
visited my friend miranda in angel
     she made me a wonderful coffee
piano recital at st martins
 


view of the city from primose hill

 






tourist central! covent garden

 

westminster abbey 

 



late to wake
walked to primrose hill and hiked the hill with brodie - windy and cold but nice view over london
lunch here again .. mmmm

best coffee of my life here


walked down to covent garden
ate an incredible macaron - i had orange blossom, brodie had lemon thyme

evensong at westminster abbey - ironically hale st mary's were singing the evening's programme

quiz night at local pub (it would have helped to be british) and drank from a stupidly large pint glass

Monday, July 18, 2011


 

 the fiat 500!




the old Abbey in Lacock - built 800 years ago


 




inside the old Abbey












































friday:


tube to heathrow and picked up the fiat 500
drove to stonehenge 
    such blue blue skies. feel very lucky to have seen it in that light
drove on to lacock
    small heritage listed town just near bath
     wandered the grounds
    bought some oatcakes, cheese and pickle and ate lunch in the park

drove on to bristol
wonderfully friendly b & b
into town for dinner - burger - saw the suspension bridge and loved the area called clifton
had a cider on a floating pub called the grain barge




 


high street in brixham

 


beer + a view

 

river cottage meal






saturday:


full english breakfast at the b & b, hit the road
drove back into bristol for a final look around ... wet wet wet ... 


hit the motorway and drove down to seaside town brixham
     wandered town centre, little shops - colourful buildings - lots of boats


drove through torquay - so windy! - and on to axminster


had a beer in the sun on a hill over looking axminster


picked damo up from the train - river cottage for dinner
        a-mazing


drove to bournemouth for night's acommodation
    full full full moon and clouds in front of us on the drive home. just stunning.










bournemouth






 the new forest



 

portsmouth







sunday:


woke up in bournemouth
hit the road
saw the pier - freezing and windy

drove to christchurch
     wandered the waterside and church grounds
     massive white swans!

drove in to the new forest 
    what a beautiful part of the world ... wild ponies wandering everywhere!


had a pub lunch in portsmouth 
    lovely little seaside town
    wandered through to the pier


drove back to heathrow - epic hour and a half tube/bus ride home due to tube closures




soundtrack of the journey:

discovered heart fm and BBC devon!  favourites included:

Chaka Khan - Aint Nobody
Billy Joel - Always A Woman
Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Adele - Rollin' In The Deep
Bee Jees - How Deep Is Your Love



back from a little trip to the country

this is brixham (which is amusingly coined by the locals as 'the english riviera')

more photos tomorrow ...