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Dear Blog: it's been over a week since my last post

Well it's been a very busy week and I haven't had a chance to sit down and do any writing.  Time is flying by and only ten more sleeps until I leave London...sob!  I must say part of me is happy to be going home but the other part is yelling Noooooooooo!!!     Watch this space for me bitching about wanting to be on the road in another six weeks or so.....I know I will be back here in London again before too long but I've gotten used to hanging around in this wonderful city.  Having months and months of new discovery every day has been wonderful and I know once I get settled at home I will be a bit depressed...which is why I still intend to blog and yak in detail about some of the fantastic places I have seen to keep this beautiful trip alive for a while longer. So what have I been up to?  I saw Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday May 20th.  Fantastic!  I am so happy I wenjt.  The next day...May 21st I visited Hever Castle with Janette (a friend of a frien

A Parkland walk

Well today I did something else on "the list".  A few months ago while still at home I read about the Parkland Walk which is a rails to trails path in North London. I thought it sounded like something I would enjoy walking. It was a logical day to do the walk - a warm day and the start point was a few stops on the same tube line as my airbnb place. I had taken along a copy of a club walk that started in the same area...so on a last minute whim I jumped off the train at an earlier tube stop.  I walked to Alexandra Palace.....not a royal palace but a "people's palace".  It was built in 1873 as an education, recreation and entertainment centre and nicknamed "Ally Pally".  In 1936 the BBC broadcast its first high definition signal from here.  The palace is still used for exhibitions, music concerts and conferences.  Alexandra Palace sits on one of the highest spots in London... I then got onto the South part of the Parkland walk...I m

Ticking things off my London bucket list

I've been keeping busy working away on my "list".  I  have a written list of things I must do before I leave London...I made this list before I left home but with less than three weeks less in London (eek!) the pressure is on!  Windsor was on "the list" so that's crossed off.  I have waited for the "good weather" for most of it.  The other day I visited Holland Park...as you might recall I visited it in the winter...but wanted to see it in the Spring.check it out now....     These photos were taken in the Kyoto garden which is so very beautiful.  Holland Park Mews in the photo above...how the other half lives!    Another thing on the bucket list?  Walk along more of the Regents Canal...so that I did....from Lime End where I was staying to Haggerston...     I stopped at Victoria Park for a much needed coffee A coot and her babies - was fun watching them.  Pagoda in Victoria Park Back on the