In the land of chocolate, waffles, french fries and Audrey Hepburn. I'm set.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good": Off to London for Harry Potter!!

The London Eye

Parliament!

 England v. France. "England Till I Die!! Stand up if you hate the French!!" :)
 C'mon let's make a comeback. Final Score 2-1 France
 Buckingham Palace
 I would fail as a guard. I can't not laugh
 Love the phone booths!
 Westminster Abbey
 Millennium Bridge...or more commonly known as the bridge that gets destroyed in Harry Potter
 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
 On London Bridge...well not really...the real one is in...Arizona?!?
Look at London Bridge from a far...it's that red line...yeah...anticlimactic 
 Tower of London!

 The Rosetta Stone at the British Museum
 Fresco (?) from the Parthenon in Athens...the English like to keep the World's treasures "safe" in London
 The most famous address...221B Baker's Street. I am sure you knew it! 
It's the residence of Sherlock Holmes. Don't Nick and I make a great Sherlock Holmes and Watson?
 Hyde Park! So pretty! I wish I had had more time to explore. But I made a dash for Speaker's Corner...and no one was there!! Can't believe it!! tear.
 Getting our tickets for the midnight showing of Harry Potter!! At the theatre where the world premiere was...the theatre seats like 800 people! Crazy!!
 As we wait for the movie...off to the The Victoria and Albert Museum
 Where they had a special exhibit on Peter Rabbit
 Time to get ready for the movie...off to King's Cross to take a picture at Platform 9 3/4...if you do not read the books (so basically you are lame and are missing out on life's greatest joy) this is where the students catch the Hogwart's Express!
 Me and my Harry Potter t-shirt from high school that says..."I solemnly swear I am up to no good..."
 At the movie theatre! "Mischief managed"
 So you are not allowed to take pictures inside of Westminster Abbey...so here is the only one I have, because I had to have it...the three Bronte sisters!
 Back side of Westminster Abbey
 Abbey Road
 An inadvertent but amazing Haverford reunion! Who knew London was so small that you randomly run into other Haverfordians?!
 Final day...so where will you find me? At a bookstore...the UK's best "bookshop" in 2010...and the UK's oldest bookshop...Foyles
Nick and I stayed at Andrew's dorm...just down the street from Drury Lane...."do you know the muffin man? The muffin man, who lives on Drury Lane?"

Amsterdam with my Dad









Wow How the Time Flies

I can not believe I have fallen so far behind!! Since I last wrote I have visited Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Amsterdam, London, and Berlin. And I am getting ready for my last big trip to see my lovely friend Willa in Copenhagen (where she has been studying abroad for the semester.

I am going to post some pictures, and then I will add comments about it later. That way at least there are some photos up (mostly for my parents, being that everyone else, I think, has facebook).

Prague:

Outside of Prague's famous Estates Theatre--Don Giovanni 

 Famous Jewish Cemetery, which was a source of inspiration for the creator of Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
 Lennon Wall

Clearly I would make a good Winston Churchill
 Kafka Museum

 Classical Music Concert

At a bar called Propaganda:  Full of Communist Memorabilia and this... :)

Prague's Zoo...one of the best in the world

HEDWIG :)
Even Angelina and Brad visited this zoo with their kids! 

Now off to the ballet to see Swan Lake!!

 Statue based on one of Kafka's short stories outside of the Jewish District. Dressed up for Halloween

 with Pebbles Flintstones
 Vienna:

Famous Ferris Wheel from the Third Man!!














Bratislava: