After I graduated high school and finally got submitted to the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology my mother agreed to go for a trip to London with me. I was excited as a 5 year old on Christmas day and felt deeply satisfied with the choice of our destination. I was going through a major British phase back then, fascinated with British culture, music and television shows. Actually, I still am.
We departed on 13th June and returned on the 17th. Thanks to the hospitality of our family that lives there we stayed at their home in south London - Raynes Park. I was amazed by how pretty everything was in this district, all the renovated victorian houses with colourful doors. I haven't had much knowledge about historical architecture, yet I still admired how consistent English architectural environment was.
The next day after getting some sleep we went downtown. It was my second time in London, the first time I was 15 years old so I did remember most of the iconic landmarks. My mother has been to London a number of times as well, so we didn't have any pressure to see all the checkpoints listed in guidebooks, we just kept strolling around and enjoying London.
But despite that, I still was observing everything carefully as if it was new for me.
I took quite many monochromatic shots, most of them are unedited. I love the B-W's and I change the mode in camera to monochrome when I shoot so that there's no need to edit them later. It's probably a very lazy and unprofessional approach, but oh well.
I won't describe every single day of our journey, but to sum it up: Every day we started our trip from different Underground stations, the first thing that I saw after getting downtown was a Tom Baker's TARDIS standing majestically outside Earl's Court station and I literally screamed. We stumbled upon it accidentally as we needed to change from District Line to a bus that would take us to Raynes Park. No complains from me here. We walked along the South Bank, took a quick tour of Tate Modern, turned to the direction of St. Paul's next and strolled around. For the percularities we came across a magnificent string quartet concert down in Covent Garden. Walked around Westminster. We bought takeaway lunch and enjoyed it on a picnic with my mum's cousin in St. James Park. We also booked tickets to see Mamma Mia! in Novello Theatre. In the evening back in Raynes Park we enjoyed a pint of Young's beer in a pub called "Hand in Hand".
We had to take a suburban rail to get to our accomodation and one time we boarded a faster train that didn't stop at our stop and that's the furthest from London that we got.
I am much better in telling stories through pictures than words, so see for yourselves! There are quite a lot of them, actually.
