Hello! It’s so nice to be real-time blogging again! I had all of my posts pre-written for the past two weeks, but here I am again. I landed back in Santiago, from London, on Saturday and am ready to get right back into reading all of your very wanderful posts.
Before going home to London, I thought I’d have posts galore to write up when I get home, but in the end I’ve decided to write just one summary post because I indulged all my time in seeing family and friends and really didn’t take my camera out as much as I would have thought.
::So, here are my two weeks in London, in verbs::
Feeling at home when spying the most amazing scenes from my plane into Heathrow. I can’t quite believe how close and detailed I got to see so many famous London landmarks, it was pretty special!
Gazing up at the sky from the new Crossrail Place Roof Garden, it was especially nice as there was barely anybody else there!
Enjoying seeing all of the pretty and unusual houses that London boasts, I love the variety of architecture in the city, both old and new and how they fit along side each other.
Admiring London from it’s newest viewpoint at The Tate Modern, and it sure looked pretty, even on a grey day!
Snapping away at pretty flowers, because summer flowers just instantly mean happy, especially those in my parent’s garden.
Culturing around and soaking up lots of art in Hyde Park, The Science Museum, The Royal Geographical Society and beyond.
Smiling at the sight of the Hyde Park parakeets almost camouflaged but still visible.
Tasting Mast chocolate and enjoying the window display too, especially because it reflected the street art opposite.
Walking around new parts of Shoreditch, where I haven’t been before. It’s amazing what you can find when you just wander a few streets further.
Looking up at the bright blue sky that shone down on London for my second week there. I was so lucky to be there for the heatwave and get a week of summer. I can’t believe it even reached 33!
Finding street art, always.
Polaroid-ing. One of my friends gave me a polaroid for my birthday so I started to snap away and safe to say, I love it!
Counting my steps on my new FitBit 🙂
And of course… the very best part, Soaking up every moment with my family and friends.
What a great two weeks that was! 😀 So, what have you been up to?
Marcella xx
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I loved this post!
I know right? Every time I go visit home I bring my camera hoping to come back with great blog post ideas but in the end not much comes out of it because you just do “normal” stuff with family and friends.
I love Hyde Park and the Tate. I love your photos too. And the Crossrail Place Roof Garden looks awesome, so does your polaroid picture. 🙂
Thanks for your lovely comment! It’s so true, and doing all those ‘normal’ things feels just great 🙂
I also once got to fly directly over London and sat near a window and could actually see London from above! It’s so amazing!!! #WednesdayWanderlust
Isn’t it just? The detail was amazing, I really felt like I was looking down at a model 🙂 It was incredible!
beautiful post!:)
Thanks!
So glad you had such a good time at home, and definitely good call on the spending time with family and friends. Every time I go to Australia to visit my sister and family I come back thinking I’ll have loads of stuff to share – and find exactly the same. Nothing! (Especially as I don’t put my nieces/nephews faces on my blog, and that’s all I seem to have photos of..!).
Still, I enjoyed the photos you did take. I really must explore more of London. Hope you’re settling back in well!
Thanks Rachel! Couldn’t agree more 🙂 And it made me happy to realise that lots of the memories were inside, rather than on my camera.
Settled back in fine, thanks. Back and work and planning new adventures!
Snapping and Tasting is pretty much all I do on my vacations! Lol… I should learn to do more gazing and looking up… #WanderfulWednesday
Yup, that pretty much sums it up 😉 But I also love looking up as there is so much beauty to be found!
It looks like you had the best time being back in London! It’s always so much fun when you’re back and you can see all the sights and experience everything in your hometown! I would have been taking a ton of pictures of all of those flowers too! They’re so beautiful!
It was really great, thank you!! 🙂 Those flowers were beautiful! I love that part of summer.
Great photos! Crossrail Place Roof Garden looks so beautiful. And I love that wall in Shoreditch!
It was a great new place to visit, a garden in the middle of the city 🙂
It must have been so fun to have a beautiful London summertime when it’s the middle of winter in Chile! Not to mention, being home and everything 🙂 How often are you planning to come home to visit?
It was really great, I loved it! My aim is to go once a year 🙂
I was loving your images of London all the way until I got to the polaroid image. Wow! So cute! You make me want a polaroid camera! So fun!
Glad you had an enjoyable time in London! Thanks for sharing all of the wonderful images! 🙂
I love my new camera, it was such a nice present from a friend 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the shots!
Loved this post, Marcella! Those aerial views coming into Heathrow are always so exhilarating! I’m actually moving to London for my postgrad degree in September. Do you have any tips for a young person new to the city? Thank you!
Ah so nice, you’ll have a great time! What sort of tips were you hoping for? Things to do? I’m more than happy to offer any help I can, maybe you could email me? My email address is on my contact page 🙂
Good to hear that you enjoyed your time in London! I’d love to visit the Royal Geographic Society – sounds so interesting!
Thanks so much! The Royal Geographical Society always has the most amazing photography exhibitions and it’s usually quiet, which means you can really enjoy them!
What a nice way of describing your visit. Love the pictures of the houses, I find that architecture a lot more interesting than the ‘iconic’ buildings… #wanderfulwednesday
Thanks so much! I love looking around at all of the houses, it’s so special! 🙂
Wow! Looks like you had a great time. I enjoyed seeing all the new places you discovered. I would like to have a Polaroid camera. I have see entire tours dedicated to that. I would also like to have a FitBit to count my steps!
Thank you! I love the polaroid camera as it really makes you think about what you choose to use your film for 🙂 Loving my new FitBit, aren’t they great??
Glad to see that you had a wonderful visit home, Marcella! Loved your photos of the sky at the Crossrail Place Roof garden.
Thank you! The roof top gardens are a really cool place to visit 🙂
Beautiful shots! I hope you enjoyed your visit!! 🙂
Thank you! It was the best!! 😀
my older sister is going to be studying in London this fall as LSE! I’m looking forward to visiting her! it looks stunning!
Ah nice! That’s amazing 🙂 So glad that you get to go and visit!
What an amazing, jam-packed couple of weeks! So glad London turned it out for you 🙂
Thank you, it was amazing! A fortnight to remember for a long time!
Beautiful photos!! I love the views from the Tate as well!! Love the bright wall with the insta pic too! Well done!!
Thank you! 🙂 The views from The Tate are pretty amazing!!
So glad you had such an awesome time at home! I can’t wait to see you and hear all about it in person! I really really love that picture of you in the reflection with choose love! Amazing. Hope you’re feeling better Marcella! 😀
Thank you! 🙂 That was a fun photo to take, it came out well. See you soon!
Love the idea of conveying your time in London in verbs – very original! And funnily enough, I was recently looking at a polaroid – definitely a treat purchase if I get one as I don’t really need it but I just love love the idea of them – looks like so much fun!
Thanks so much! My Polaroid camera was a total surprise for my birthday and I love it! The only thing is that the film is really expensive, so you have to savour every sheet, which is a good and a bad thing! 😉
London is such an incredible place. It has stolen my heart. Great post.
Isn’t it just? London, I love it so!
I know I’m late, but it looks like you had such a wonderful time in London, and took beautiful pictures, as always. Did it kind of feel like you’re a tourist in your hometown? 🙂 I would love to see your Polaroid snaps! I’d love one of those cameras!
Thank you!! I felt so at home, I don’t think I’ll ever feel that a tourist in London as I feel my heart swell when I arrive.
I’ve only taken a few Polaroid snaps so far as I’m trying to savour them as the price is so expensive for the film! Buttt, when I’ve built up enough, it’ll be a fun post to write!
This post was great and that polaroid you took was so artsy ahah 🙂
I have a post on London (well a part of it anyway) too if you wanted to check it out
Thanks so much!