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Please note: This blog has gone portable as I abandon the still thawing Canada for a whirlwind four month journey around Europe.

I plan to post at least once a week to document my adventures as a solo female vegan art-loving traveller. Check out the map for geographical details of the trip in progress. Both the blog and the photos on Flickr will be updated as often as possible.

Posted
9 April 2008 @ 11am

Tagged
animals, travel

There is life in London

One of the things that stood out most to me in London, was that despite the fact that the city was crowded and loud, interspersed throughout were beautiful gardens, called squares - little pockets of quiet and luscious spring growth. As I got used to the city I began to seek them out, peering through the gated walls of the ones I could not enter (for private residents only) - this ability to see the gardens but not enter was its own kind of torture. As you walk through the city, the mix of concrete and new and old architecture is punctuated by the luscious green of spring growth. A long walk through Hyde Park was a chance to take in the spring smells and another form of life, birds! Here are some of my favourite shots of this aspect of London:

Private square - taken through the iron gate:

the private square - through the gate with my lens

A bird who I think was really enjoying the attention:

i swear he was modeling for me

Hyde Park was lovely:

a bursting of white, Hyde Park

Lincoln’s Inn Fields:

Lincoln's Inn Fields

The entrance to Lincoln’s Inn Fields:

entrance to Lincoln's Inn Fields

A garden I saw on my regular walk:

front garden


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