I am particularly pleased at having reached the word count
of the challenge, as in the middle I took a weekend out to go to London with a
girlfriend. My husband works abroad and lives in hotels, so we used hotel
points to have a room in a nice hotel in Park Lane.
The first evening was spent in Oxford Street, looking at the Christmas lights and Selfridges' windows, before joining the crowds at Winter Wonderland in Hyde
Park. We had tickets for the ice sculptures, but hadn’t bargained for how cold
the marquee where they were housed would be. You got free hand warmers on the
way out, as it was 8 in there.
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| Ice Sculpture |
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| One of the Winter Wonderland rides |
The next morning we headed to Kensington Palace. It was a
gorgeous morning for November. We wanted to see the exhibition of the Queen’s,
Princess Margaret’s and Diana’s dresses. We both had the same emotional
reaction before going into the room containing Diana’s dresses. My vision was
misted for a while. The dresses were beautiful with intricate beading and embroidery.
That evening we bused into Westminster and took photos of
the lights, before the whole reason for going to London in the first place – a talk
by Elizabeth Gilbert about creativity and her new book on the subject Big
Magic. I have loved her work since I read Eat, Pray, Love. (I’ve since reread
this book four times!). It was a sell-out event and well worth going to see
Elizabeth in person.
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| Elizabeth Gilbert |
We caught the train home the next day, tired but elated.
I’ll post about the talk soon. Which book have you read more
than once?
Wow - those ice sculptures must have been amazing, judging from the one in the photo. I wish I had time to make a trip to London.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the NaNo win! I'm glad you managed to fit in your London trip as well :)
The sculptures were amazing, but I don't remember ever feeling that cold before! I was amazed at how many words I wrote in my notebook on the train.
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