A Literary Walk Through London
Mike Carter and Cindy Lawford of London Literary Tours
Yesterday I took a walking tour of Literary London that far exceeded my expectations! The guides were basically actors with PhDs — informative, entertaining, and inspiring. It felt like time traveling through Bloomsbury in the 1920s. I wandered through parks, listened to prose in front of historic literary spots, and even made a new friend. I highly recommend!
Photo: Public Domain (via National Portrait Gallery, London)
The Bloomsbury Group: They lived in squares, drew in circles and loved in triangles.
Kew Gardens
Inside the Palm House, Ellen McHale © RBG Kew
Inside the Bee Hive
Outside the Bee Hive
The bridge over the lake, golden hour.
A Field Trip to Salisbury
Image via Hand Luggage Only because I was too busy talking to take photos.
Today I met a friend in Salisbury! Which, as it turns out is not the birthplace of the Salisbury Steak, but a bucolic little city with rivers and bunnies and a cloister and a famous cathedral. We took a long walk through the meadows surrounding the town before wandering through the cloisters. We skipped the boring parts of town (Ryman, WHSmith = Anywhere, England) and instead popped into a few local boutiques. Over lunch, we splashed out for a glass of bubbly to celebrate my friend’s birthday. :)
