Londoning

For the week of Yuletide, I travelled to London and Wirral. I had a great time wandering around the city and an even better time with the amazingly generous family I spent Christmas with in Wirral. But as I have no energy for an actual entry, what follows is a captioned photo-dump.

Note, too, that I went walking in a beautiful park in Wales, which was very scenic, but the photos I took were on my camera instead of phone, and I only just discovered that the camera is, erm, incompatible with my Mac. So until I find a way to get those pictures off there, you'll just have to picture a misty hillside with farms separated by low shrubbery and herds of sheep. Also, woods and mossy stone walls and rivers and 4-inch-deep-mud. And a few characters from Game of Thrones meandering about.

London Dump Commence:

Kings Cross St. Pancras station

British Museum

My favorite piece in the museum: an Egyptian fertility God with the body of a hippo and the head of a lion, carved from pure raspberry marble cheesecake.

A cute little corner.

The Churchill Arms: the strangest restaurant I have ever been to.

The ceiling is completely covered in baskets, birdhouses, and plants...

And the restaurant serves Thai food.

London Eye through the lights.

Night view of the Thames.

During my nighttime stroll.

Aaaand in the day.

Westminster Abbey.

I wouldn't mind eating stew out of that ark...

Lovely weather!

Selfie on the bridge.

On the London Eye!

Almost to the top...

And at the summit!

Borough Market

My delicious lunch: breads, spreads, and fancy cheese.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

A random building I thought looked cool.

Crossing the Thames to the Tate.

Shakespeare's Globe

Mermaid staircase?

D'awww, cute building.

Awesome old keys at the Victoria and Albert museum.

The V&A lobby: because I got kicked out at closing time.

Sparkly Chihuly!

... and then Welsh countryside. Yep. So... England happened.