Holiday Reports!
Aug. 21st, 2013 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
londonronnieWell, the last time I updated here I was about to go on holiday to London for a week and now, not only have I been to London, I've just come back from the Lake District too! I should point out that I'm not usually in the habit of having two holidays in the space of a month, but last week was the only time in the school summer holidays that we were able to fit in a week away with granddaughter Izzy so we just had to grasp the opportunity.
Both holidays were excellent, although in different ways. We walked for miles in London, calling in at many welcoming hostelries on our travels (*g*); I had my trip to the top of the Shard, which was totally awesome; saw 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at Shakespeare's Globe; had some lovely meals and spent a couple of great afternoons with good friends.
Didn't do as much walking in the Lakes as we usually do, for one thing my dodgy knee decided to play up and of course we had to make sure that Izzy was kept occupied and amused. This meant our days were full of trips to the swimming pool and adventure playground, several journeys on the open-top bus, a boat trip around Derwentwater, lots of watching the deer and buzzards from our cottage garden, and a few low-level walks that weren't too strenuous (mainly for my benefit - bloody knee!). Izzy also spent hours kicking her football around in the garden and amusing herself as only a six-year-old can by collecting pebbles and petals that had fallen off the flowers in the rain (which we had a lot of!).
The cottage wasn't wired up for the internet but I took my laptop anyway, as I had the crazy notion that once Izzy had gone to bed I would have a few hours each night to perhaps write or maybe do some vidding. Wrong!! Thanks to an overindulgent Granddad who decreed on the first night that "There's no such thing as 'bedtime' when you're on holiday" (note: he would never have said that when our own kids were little!) I found that I was usually going to bed myself, totally knackered, within about half an hour of Izzy dropping off! And the only time that my laptop was actually taken out of its bag was the occasion when I downloaded Izzy's photos from her little camera. So much for being creative!
Here's a few piccies then - London first:
A walk along the Regent's Canal
Wilton's Music Hall
From the top of the Shard (that last one is NOT of me, btw! *g*)
And some piccies from the Lake District:
Both holidays were excellent, although in different ways. We walked for miles in London, calling in at many welcoming hostelries on our travels (*g*); I had my trip to the top of the Shard, which was totally awesome; saw 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at Shakespeare's Globe; had some lovely meals and spent a couple of great afternoons with good friends.
Didn't do as much walking in the Lakes as we usually do, for one thing my dodgy knee decided to play up and of course we had to make sure that Izzy was kept occupied and amused. This meant our days were full of trips to the swimming pool and adventure playground, several journeys on the open-top bus, a boat trip around Derwentwater, lots of watching the deer and buzzards from our cottage garden, and a few low-level walks that weren't too strenuous (mainly for my benefit - bloody knee!). Izzy also spent hours kicking her football around in the garden and amusing herself as only a six-year-old can by collecting pebbles and petals that had fallen off the flowers in the rain (which we had a lot of!).
The cottage wasn't wired up for the internet but I took my laptop anyway, as I had the crazy notion that once Izzy had gone to bed I would have a few hours each night to perhaps write or maybe do some vidding. Wrong!! Thanks to an overindulgent Granddad who decreed on the first night that "There's no such thing as 'bedtime' when you're on holiday" (note: he would never have said that when our own kids were little!) I found that I was usually going to bed myself, totally knackered, within about half an hour of Izzy dropping off! And the only time that my laptop was actually taken out of its bag was the occasion when I downloaded Izzy's photos from her little camera. So much for being creative!
Here's a few piccies then - London first:
And some piccies from the Lake District:
