Belfast was really big. It is like a town on the water. 戦艦ベルファストはとても大きいです。 ほぼ海上の街です。 London Bridge is opening!! ロンドンブリッジって現役の跳ね橋なんですよね。 開いてるところ初めて見ました！

There is a food market called borough. In this big market, you can find so many items. バラマーケットという食べ物一般の市場があります。 かなり大きな市場で、野菜、肉、お酒、パン、チーズ色々あります。 Mulled wine (hot wine) seems popular in …

ハイドパークにて11月の終わりから1月までWinterWonderlandが開かれています。 大規模な移動遊園地とでも言いましょうか。 遊具あり。メリーゴーランド、ジェットコースター、観覧車などなど。 食べ物あり。ホットドッグ、クレープ、ワッフル、ホットワイン…

Finally we took a flight of London Eye. There is long long que every weekend though somehow this day the que was very short. I guess season off,chilly weather and big competitor(Winter wonderland in Hydepark has observation wheel) made the…

There are many stalls in the town. Items are not necessarily christmas goods but out-look is chirstmas version. Pack your Haribo as much as you can!! No, kidding, about 2GBP per 100g.ハリボ詰め放題！ 嘘です。本当は100グラムあたり350円くら…

A building in above photo is not old scotland yard. But it looks good with old type bus, isn't it? 上の写真は旧スコットランドヤードの建物ではないのですが 古いタイプのバスと一緒だといい感じに見えませんか？

We visited Westminster Abbey. It rained and chilly morning though got milder from noon.ウェストミンスター寺院に行ってきました。 朝は雨でしかも寒かったですが、午後からだいぶ天気回復しました。 It seems a clock. How to read it is not sure. 時…

Harrod's light up for Christmas. ハロッズのライトアップ。

Millennium Bridge build over river thames and connect St.Paul and tate modern. ミレニアムブリッジはセント・ポールとテート・モダンの間、テムズ川に架かっています。 It is prohibited to playing skate bord or other stuff on the bridge. スケート…

St.Paul had a big dome and we can go up to look down london city. There are more thna thousand steps to go up. セント・ポール寺院は大きなドーム屋根が乗っかっていて、その上に登ってロンドンの街を見下ろすことができます。 千段以上の階段を登る…

In city area, there is a guild hall. It is very beautiful. I cannot compare this to Japanese ordinaly guild hall. シティと言われるエリアにはギルドホールがあります。 非常に美しいです。 日本の商工会議所とは比べ物になりません。

Do you know one of the most famouse decetive called Poirot? He is a charctor in story of Agatha Cristie. The stories become TV program and there is a house used as Poirot's in London. In TV, it looks the house located very center of london…

There are some famouse place in Edinburgh. Edinburgh Castle, St. Jiles, Scots monument, Holyrood Palace and so on. On second and last day in Edinburgh, We went to St.Jiles(no photo, sorry). Then walk down royal mile in freezing but sunny w…

On this weekend, we visited Edinburgh the capital city of Scotland. I had been there 10 years before for language study. It has been so long since last time though old city has not been changed much. スコットランドの首都、エディンバラへ行…

And the last was Grasmere. Know as a place which Wordsworth lived. 最後にグラスミアです。 ロマン派詩人ワーズワースの住んだ土地として知られています。

There is a stone circle in lake district. Here we could go into the circle and touch them. But it was freezing by this time.... 湖水地方にもストーンサークルがあります。 こちらは輪の中に入ったり触ったりできます。 それにしても、この時点では…

I would say nothing. This is pub lunch.... あまり色々言わないでおこうと思います。 これがいわゆるパブランチ（パブで出てくるランチ）です。

We went through Keswick town and went up to a hill. There is a view point, the tour guide said "surprise view". To my disappointment, it was so misty at the moment to surprise. Even it is beautiful enough. ケジックの街を通り抜けて丘を登る…

Then, the next is Conistion. We could see steam boat ran on the lake. 次はコニストンです。 蒸気ボートが走っていました。

The next stop was tarn hows. It is said one of the most beautiful lake in lake district. In deed, the view was splendid. 次に止まったところはターンハウズ（ホウズ？）という湖です。 湖水地方で最も美しい湖の一つなんだそうです。 実際非常に美し…

Sunday, We joined a mini-bus tour. Since the weather forecast said Sunday will be rain, we chose one we could stay in a car mainly. This decision turned out to be very wise. 日曜はミニバスツアーに参加しました。 天気予報が雨になっていたので…

We visted Lake District this weekend. From London Euston Station, It took around 3 hours to get to Windermere Station by Train. Windermere is the last terminal station of lake district line. After got off train, we had to continue our jour…

(↑look at old royal naval college from the Queen's house) I went for a walk in Greenwich today since it was a lovely sunny day. From our palce to Greenwich is just 15 minutes journey by DLR. (DLR = Dockland Railway Service) Greenwich recal…

I went to Hyde Park to have lunch. It was the last place of walking. お昼を食べにハイドパークへ行きました。 ここが散歩の終着点でした。

I got off train at Oxford Street and walk along oxford street. I dropped in John Lewiss, Maks & Spencer, Selfredge and Primark. (All of them are big department store) Finaly I got a blanket with reasonable price. During shopping, I saw chr…

I walked a lot today. Mainly to find a blanket (can I say a throw?) and take some photo to post. Start from Docland as always. 今日はたくさん歩きました。 主にブランケットを探すためと写真を撮るためです。 いつものようにドックランドからスター…

Let me continue Kew Gardens Report of Oct 10th. Since the garden is broad, my report seems to be long. There are many huge trees in the garden. I put some of them here.Do you know how pinecone grows? Let's see...Here is a pine tree. 松ぼっ…

We went to Kew Gardens today. It is a huge royal botanical garden located south east of greater London. The weather was good to walking around trees.It was sunny and cool. So we could enjoy there pretty much. 今日はキューガーデンに行ってき…

They are two of my fellows. I'd like to introduce them to you. ということで、今使っている洗剤の一部をご紹介。 白い方が柔軟剤、紫のキャップがデリケート用洗剤。エマールみたいなものです。 エマール的なものはECOという名を冠していいるブランドだ…

Today we went out for dinner. Actually planned to go branch, but overslept :-p Anyway, We went to West India Quey. There are several bar and restrants have big open terrace out there. 本日は夕食を食べに行ってきました。 ブランチの予定が寝過…