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Apr. 23rd, 2014 02:32 pmWhat is it with days flying by and your realising it's been a bit over two weeks since you last updated when you thought that, surely, it had only been maybe a week, top?
My excuse is that I'm on holidays and, as everyone knows, times goes by differently when you're on holidays and, bigger excuse yet, I went to London for four days last week so I was otherwise occupied :)
We were lucky as the weather was splendid! Blue sky, sun shining. It was still a mix of warm and cold, though, as if the weather wasn't completely certain that Winter was over and Spring was there. Or, let's say it was Winter under the shade and Spring under the sun. Anyway, it was lovely :)
We went to our "usual joints" as in we spent a morning at the British Museum (and purchased tickets to the Vikings exhibit), had lunch at the Euston Flyer pub before paying a visit to the National Library. We went to Waterstones a couple of times, too, as I'm wont to do. We walked a lot all around London and its different neighbourhoods and made frequent stops at Starbucks when we needed to rest a little - perfect way to visit any cities, if you ask me :) We'd never visited the National Gallery before and decided to remedy that so this museum has been crossed off the To Do list. I also went to Camden for the first time before having a stroll along Regent's Canal and taking a break at Regent's park - we lazed under the sun for an hour and a half. I might have dozed off a bit ;) This was our second lazy break in a park as the first one was on Tuesday when we sat on a lounge chair for an hour at Green Park. Pretty nice :)
We'd also purchased tickets for the Making of Harry Potter tour at the WB London Studios and omg, this was absolutely fantastic! Definitely the place to go if you're even a little bit into the HP franchise... They'd promised us "breathtakingly detailed sets to stunning costumes, props and animatronics" and they did not lie, we had a blast ♥
Last but not least, I was lucky to spend an evening with
loki_dip and
enigel ♥ It had been ages since I last saw them so I was pretty excited to meet them again :) I meant to see
yami_tai as well but a case of the flu prevented her from joining us :( Next time, hopefully!
So that was our fun little stay in London :) We got back on Friday and celebrated Easter on Sunday and Monday, respectively at my sister's and at my mother-in-law's.
As for yesterday, I went to Japan! Or, well, ok not exactly, but it did feel like I was far away from Paris. I visited the Albert-Kahn gardens and spent some time in the Japanese section, which was absolutely gorgeous. ( Case in point )
It was not only gorgeous but so incredibly quiet and peaceful! I could have stayed there for hours ♥ If you ever come to Paris and want to see something different, I highly recommend that place, you have to pay a fee but it's worth the 4€ they ask for the ticket.
Fannish wise, I've caught up on my shows the past few days, meaning I'm up-to-date with Person of Interest (that last episode!! The ending could have been a season finale of sorts, I felt. I'm even more curious about what they have in store for us now!), Arrow (what a mess!) and Hannibal (omg, the last scene of last week episode was just... I don't even know what it was, but it was something, wasn't it?) and I also watched the season premiere of Orphan Black (so glad to have the show back!). Fic-wise, I'm still reading The Musketeers and having a good time in the fandom; it keeps delivering new fic to read everyday. Thank you, Musketeers fandom! ♥
Speaking of reading... I've read Divergent while I was in London (ended up disappointed by the novel, I'm afraid) and I've gone back to reading the second volume of A Storm of Sword as I decided I was getting ridiculously behind on the series. Besides, many of my cousins are hooked on the show and I fear they're going to spoil me at some point, so.
There, the past week and a half in one little entry, how's that for an update? :)
My excuse is that I'm on holidays and, as everyone knows, times goes by differently when you're on holidays and, bigger excuse yet, I went to London for four days last week so I was otherwise occupied :)
We were lucky as the weather was splendid! Blue sky, sun shining. It was still a mix of warm and cold, though, as if the weather wasn't completely certain that Winter was over and Spring was there. Or, let's say it was Winter under the shade and Spring under the sun. Anyway, it was lovely :)
We went to our "usual joints" as in we spent a morning at the British Museum (and purchased tickets to the Vikings exhibit), had lunch at the Euston Flyer pub before paying a visit to the National Library. We went to Waterstones a couple of times, too, as I'm wont to do. We walked a lot all around London and its different neighbourhoods and made frequent stops at Starbucks when we needed to rest a little - perfect way to visit any cities, if you ask me :) We'd never visited the National Gallery before and decided to remedy that so this museum has been crossed off the To Do list. I also went to Camden for the first time before having a stroll along Regent's Canal and taking a break at Regent's park - we lazed under the sun for an hour and a half. I might have dozed off a bit ;) This was our second lazy break in a park as the first one was on Tuesday when we sat on a lounge chair for an hour at Green Park. Pretty nice :)
We'd also purchased tickets for the Making of Harry Potter tour at the WB London Studios and omg, this was absolutely fantastic! Definitely the place to go if you're even a little bit into the HP franchise... They'd promised us "breathtakingly detailed sets to stunning costumes, props and animatronics" and they did not lie, we had a blast ♥
Last but not least, I was lucky to spend an evening with
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So that was our fun little stay in London :) We got back on Friday and celebrated Easter on Sunday and Monday, respectively at my sister's and at my mother-in-law's.
As for yesterday, I went to Japan! Or, well, ok not exactly, but it did feel like I was far away from Paris. I visited the Albert-Kahn gardens and spent some time in the Japanese section, which was absolutely gorgeous. ( Case in point )
It was not only gorgeous but so incredibly quiet and peaceful! I could have stayed there for hours ♥ If you ever come to Paris and want to see something different, I highly recommend that place, you have to pay a fee but it's worth the 4€ they ask for the ticket.
Fannish wise, I've caught up on my shows the past few days, meaning I'm up-to-date with Person of Interest (that last episode!! The ending could have been a season finale of sorts, I felt. I'm even more curious about what they have in store for us now!), Arrow (what a mess!) and Hannibal (omg, the last scene of last week episode was just... I don't even know what it was, but it was something, wasn't it?) and I also watched the season premiere of Orphan Black (so glad to have the show back!). Fic-wise, I'm still reading The Musketeers and having a good time in the fandom; it keeps delivering new fic to read everyday. Thank you, Musketeers fandom! ♥
Speaking of reading... I've read Divergent while I was in London (ended up disappointed by the novel, I'm afraid) and I've gone back to reading the second volume of A Storm of Sword as I decided I was getting ridiculously behind on the series. Besides, many of my cousins are hooked on the show and I fear they're going to spoil me at some point, so.
There, the past week and a half in one little entry, how's that for an update? :)