After the Rain Has Gone

Coming from the UK, rain definitely isn’t a special event!  However, as it only rains a few times a year (less than 20), here in Santiago, it really is a special event. On Wednesday, as the end of my working …

Plane Views

Our journey to Santiago de Chile was a long one!  Which meant that there was a lot of time for ‘plane views’ and there were some beautiful ones! Our first stop was Amsterdam, where we arrived just as the sun …

Flowers and Views :: The Horniman Gardens

The Horniman Museum and Gardens can be found in Dulwich in South London.  We took a slow stroll around the gardens last weekend. The flowers were mesmerising; some of the most brightly coloured and detailed I had seen.  Plus there …

The Mont-Salève Cable Car

Doesn’t every city break have to include visiting a view spot?  The London Eye and The Shard in London, The Eiffel Tower in Paris, The Empire State Building in New York. When we were in Geneva we went to a …

A View From The Shard, London.

You know the view from The London Eye, well think of that but… higher.  

The equivalent of 39 floors higher and you can begin to image the incredible view from The Shard in London.

We picked, by chance, a beautifully crisp winter day with a bright blue sky and not a chance of rain.  We couldn’t believe our luck after days of grey drizzle.  After you have zoomed up to floor 68 in two incredibly fast lifts you are greeted with a view that makes your jaw drop open.  I mean you can see the whole of London, it’s really spectacular.

Here are a few peeks of the view we were spoilt with.

 

Look at this sky…

 

Look closely to see the shadow of The Shard here

 

 

Marcella xo