I thought I’d written about going to the Tower of London before, but apparently I haven’t. If you haven’t been yet, go! I love it, and when Maggie and Craig came in October I used them as an excuse to go for a second time.
While in London a couple weeks ago, we came across this painted bus statue. After looking into it we discovered that they were Routemaster sculptures celebrating the “Year of the Bus” 2014 celebrating a few bus milestones. It’s been 60 years since the creation of the route master, 75 years since the RT-Type bus, and 100 years ago the first mass produced motor bus, the B-type Battle bus was used to transport soldiers during the First World War. So of course we spent the next few days hunting them down.CONTINUE READING
‘Blood swept lands and seas of red’ is the striking art installation at the Tower of London to mark the 100 year anniversary of Britain’s involvement in the First World War. I’ve been three times between September and the end of October since they started planting the poppies, and each time became more and more impressive as they added one by one to the mass of ceramic flowers. There are set to be 888,246 red poppies in total to signify each fallen British soldier in the war. CONTINUE READING
Afternoon tea is quickly becoming my most favourite thing ever. If it’s themed, then you’ve already won me over. Sunday, along with 27 other bloggers, I got to preview the Conrad St. James hotel’s (formerly the Intercontinental Westminser) Christmas afternoon tea. This was possibly the cutest assortment of food I’ve ever seen, not to mention super tasty.CONTINUE READING
My main reason for going to London a couple weeks ago was to attend a London Bloggers afternoon tea. I’m not a London blogger, but I jumped at the chance to meet some lovely ladies and eat my weight in sandwhiches. I wish I was kidding on that last bit. Our table were the eaters for sure. We had most of our food demolished before the other two tables started on their desserts. Oops.