Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Fi’s big adventure

I have just made a decision to stop listening to NZ radio. Just because I can does not mean I should. Apparently it’s going to pour with rain tomorrow, somewhat unconveniently as my parents are coming to town for 3 days. I’m really looking forward to seeing them! [UPDATE - No more pouring with rain, just a little rain, YAY!! AND I've found a UK Christian Radio station so I'm now happily listening to that]

I went on a big adventure this weekend, I spent all Saturday studying and doing boring things so I could spend all of Sunday adventuring. I left Passfield (located at the top of the map) just before 11am and arrived at Holy Trinity Brompton, which is just off the left side of the map, at 4:50pm. En route I visited St Paul’s Cathedral, the Millennium Bridge, the Globe (kinda), the Tate Modern, South Bank, Westminster and Westminster Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, and Hyde Park Corner. You can view ALL my photos from this funtastic adventure here.

And here’s me getting ready (or posing) for my big adventure - apologies to Dave for copy/pasting my email explanation below.
First I headed to St Paul’s Cathedral and saw all sorts of funny things on the way, including a pub called “Cittie of Porke”. Classic! The Cathedral was incredible, I spent a bit of time inside listening to the remainder of the morning service and then went to the cafe in the Crypt for lunch. A kinda fun place to have lunch really! There were a young couple getting wedding photos taken on the Cathedral steps, which was really quite cute. I took lots of photos of the Cathedral but many didn’t turn out too great because of the odd sunlight angles.

Next I walked over the Millennium Bridge, which is still vaguely wobbly, to the Tate Modern and the Globe. I took some photos of the Globe, but didn’t go in, and then spent an hour wandering around one floor of the Tate Modern. I like art, but it’s definitely something I can have too much of!!! You can walk down the South Bank of the Thames from the Tate Modern to the Westminster Bridge (back to Westminster/Big Ben) so I headed that way and got caught up in a Sunday fair-type-thing. Lots of street performers and secondhand books and people with weird shaped balloons. There was also a guy making really big bubbles, which I managed to get a photo of. Lastly, there was a Macedonian street band performing so that was really cool, they sounded fantastic and I got a few photos of them.

Having finally made my way to Westminster bridge, past the London Eye and County Hall where there were masses of people, I crossed back to the other side and went to Evensong at Westminster Cathedral. The singing was incredible, although I couldn’t see the choir from where I was sitting. One of the easiest ways to get from Westminster to HTB was to go through Buckingham Palace so I headed that way and got caught up in the parade of crazy horsemen wearing silly costumes. Apparently people wait for hours to see these guys but I just happened to be there at the right time, perfect!

Lastly I headed past Hyde Park corner and onto HTB. It’s a big church, a huge church, but it felt really nice and I really enjoyed both the preaching and the worship. I shall go back there I think.

Posted by Fi McKenzie at 23:40:47 | Permalink | Comments (3)