After a good night's sleep and breakfast, the four of us, with Guinness too, headed off to the train station--a healthy, mostly uphill climb of about a half hour.
As was the case all week, we experienced no rain. We had some cloudy days for sure and temperatures stayed in the 30's (sorry, American terminology) but we were free to move about without being encumbered with brollys.
This first morning we stopped to look inside the impressive St Albans cathedral. It is quite close to Blacksmith's Lane. Sorry, no pictures permitted from inside.
Then on to the overground (yes, Guinness can travel via public transportation--so civilised) into St Pancras station. We got to really know this station as we used it everyday to switch to London's tube system.
This day we headed out to Chiswick, Cora's and CW's first cottage upon their arrival in England 3 years ago.
What fun to see this suburb of London! We stopped for take away--sandwiches consumed on the green in Richmond, our next stop.
We spent the rest of the afternoon walking through historic Richmond, wending our way to a favorite romping grounds for Guinness when they lived in nearby Chiswick--
Richmond park. On the way to the park, we stopped on Richmond hill to view the winding Thames River--at a vantage point used by J.M. Turner for one of his landscape paintings.
After a walk through the park, we all returned via public transportation to Blacksmith Lane for a delicious dinner and a bit of relaxing before heading for bed.
A great beginning to what was a fantastic week.
3 comments:
Oh what fun. So far a fond reminder of my 10 days in London in May. Looking forward to the next installment. Ill have to learn how to do this for Hawaii.
Nina
GAN said...
Oh what fun. So far a fond reminder of my 10 days in London in May. Looking forward to the next installment. Ill have to learn how to do this for Hawaii.
Nina
Excellent, good to see the photos up and re-live these days. Really did have great weather and it was a lot of fun to show you around!
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