Saturday in London is spent meandering through town from event to event.
Part of the Slow Down London Festival on in London at the moment includes a special free Wallpaper Printing Workshop with master printmaker, Linda Florence.
We team up and print a long roll of wall paper.
Some choose white stars.
We choose red on gold.
Next we take the Tube east.
To find ourselves wandering through Portobello Market in Notting Hill.
All sorts of antiques line the streets in stalls and stores.
Old film cameras.
Food stalls galore. We find a falafel place and hunker down.
Next we hop on a double decker bus to meander for most of an hour towards the city centre.
Through streets lined with taxi cabs and shoppers, we pass through Oxford Street.
A day of English folk-inspired performances are taking place in celebration of St. George's Day in Trafalgar Square.
The crowds gather in front of the National Gallery.
There are some great dancers that show up in toupes, thick gold glasses and and disco outfits.
All the while Napolean looks down on the crowds.
We wander off through the square.
And head over to Leicester Square instead.
We find a small cafe and get the best hot chocolate I've had in a long time made by the Italian owner, Fernando.
The drink has us under such a spell we accidentally leave our roll of hand printed wall paper in the corner.
We wander through China Town...
...and head over to Soho...
...where we gaze at more food in the windows.
Finally we settle into a cheap theatre to watch The Tale of Benjamin Button before heading back home to bed.
Part of the Slow Down London Festival on in London at the moment includes a special free Wallpaper Printing Workshop with master printmaker, Linda Florence.
We team up and print a long roll of wall paper.
Some choose white stars.
We choose red on gold.
Next we take the Tube east.
To find ourselves wandering through Portobello Market in Notting Hill.
All sorts of antiques line the streets in stalls and stores.
Old film cameras.
Food stalls galore. We find a falafel place and hunker down.
Next we hop on a double decker bus to meander for most of an hour towards the city centre.
Through streets lined with taxi cabs and shoppers, we pass through Oxford Street.
A day of English folk-inspired performances are taking place in celebration of St. George's Day in Trafalgar Square.
The crowds gather in front of the National Gallery.
There are some great dancers that show up in toupes, thick gold glasses and and disco outfits.
All the while Napolean looks down on the crowds.
We wander off through the square.
And head over to Leicester Square instead.
We find a small cafe and get the best hot chocolate I've had in a long time made by the Italian owner, Fernando.
The drink has us under such a spell we accidentally leave our roll of hand printed wall paper in the corner.
We wander through China Town...
...and head over to Soho...
...where we gaze at more food in the windows.
Finally we settle into a cheap theatre to watch The Tale of Benjamin Button before heading back home to bed.
2 comments:
Did you get your wallpaper back? Did you enjoy the movie? I thought it was weird and enjoyable!! I also like Nigel's expression on the tube. Don't know what it is, but it feels like he's going to say something dry and sarcastic and make me crack up. Haha!!!
I am going tomorrow to see if Fernando has found and kept our hand printed wallpaper. We forgot about it today.
I did like the movie. I like things like that...magical and real. Nigel doesn't. He thinks we should see Wolverine next to balance it out (not really his type of movie either, but good joke).
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