What I did On My Holidays - Part 2.

[curiouswombat]

This is the first post about what I got up to once I moved from Coventry down to London. D-d flew in to London City Airport and met me at out hotel in time for dinner on Sunday evening. We were staying at The Radisson Blu Vanderbilt about 3 minutes walk from the Natural History Museum, 5 minutes from th V&A, and about 15 minutes from Kensington

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[anonymous]

What a neat idea! I understand they are still working on the bit where William and Kate and baby George will be living.

Looking forward to the dresses, you and D-d seem to have had a fabulous time.

Huggs,
Lynda

[curiouswombat]

It is neat, isn't it? And yes - the private apartments are on the other side of the palace site to the state apartments - more or less a separate set of buildings, and I gather that the apartment they did have was only considered temporary until the much bigger one that used to be Princess Margaret's home has been redone for them.

Actually, as far as I can reckon it, they don't get such a nice view as the public parts have!

[kazzy_cee]

What a gorgeous summer day!

[curiouswombat]

It was lovely. We had excellent weather all the time we were there - and not too hot, just pleasantly warm.

[rs9]

Beautiful! So much color. I do love that two-dimensional image. That's awesome!

[curiouswombat]

The 2 dimensional image disconcerted me to start with - perhaps becuase I took more notice of it than I should have! I thought there was something wrong with my brain for a minute or two!

The colours were absolutely gorgeous that day.

[cairistiona7]

What funny little displays, the book and knitted crown and house of cards complete with loo!

The gardens are beautiful. Not very hobbity, but formal gardens have a sort of geometric beauty all their own.

[curiouswombat]

It was a fascinating place. Some of the displays were formal, others were much less so.

There was a really sad room with seventeen little chairs painted black, amongst swags of flowers, to illustrate the deaths of all 17 of Queen Anne's children. One was a little bigger, and there were press cuttings telling us all about Prince William's 11th birthday party, where he danced and danced and had a great time - then died 3 days later. He was the only one who had survived infancy...

Such formal gardens, I feel, belong in Gondor!

[petzipellepingo]

All very interesting and it looked like a very lovely day as well.

[curiouswombat]

It was a gorgeous day. There was really good weather all the time we were away - at least where we were. Fog at home caused D-d's flight back to be cancelled whilst she was sitting in London city airport in bright sunshine.