london in five days (I)

[carbonatedsass]

As a birthday present for all of us (well, namely Raspberry, Lucas and I), we took a trip to London this past Sunday for five days. Out of the four of us, I'm the only one who has been before, in 1984, 1994, and 2004. Yes, in keeping with the pattern, it would've been great if I could've made it last year but for some reason, we just didn't (the

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[eggsandshells]

Love your travelling scrapbook and the amount of detail you go into!

The medical displays are so fascinating!

What's with the boat on the building?

[carbonatedsass]

I brought my notebook to document each day but didn't end up writing in it, so I'm trying to recall everything best I can!!

I think you'd like the Wellcome Collection. There are all these oddities (well, we may think of it as such, but they were perfectly normal at one time in history). I had to explain what a chastity belt was to Raspberry.

I'm not sure what was up with the boat on the building, considering we weren't exactly close to water. Perhaps it's related to the mural and the random boat on the sidewalk (see pictures). It's a historical building and certainly not as cool as Ken Lum's piece!

[nicolasix]

I walk down Mile End Road and past these lovely ships quite often, so I have looked them up in the past - they're there because the buildings behind it were built as almshouses and chapel for former seamen - more info on this great blog here:
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/20/a-renovation-at-trinity-green/

The ships that are there now are replicas of the originals, which are in a museum. :)

[carbonatedsass]

Oh, cool! Thanks, Sarah! We only walked that way the one evening on our first day, and I didn't think they were very significant. How wrong I was! But the link was really interesting!

[nicolasix]

Can't wait to hear more about your trip!

x

[carbonatedsass]

:) Two more days to post about!