Slowly but surely, the trees are changing in my neighborhood. We’re still mostly green around here, but I’ve found some pretty colors to share!
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Saturday Snapshot: Fish and Chips
This may sound strange, but I love British food. It gets a bad reputation–but what’s not to love about fish and chips, meat pies, yorkshire pudding and jammie dodgers? I made a particular effort (and it wasn’t that hard) to find British food while I was in London. After I got home, I started thinking about where I could find British food here–and what I could try making myself.
Meat pies seem complicated, but I thought I could handle fish and chips. On my trip, I had fish and chips for lunch one day at The Black Lion. First picture, here’s the pub:
It’s a great old place that dates back to the 1700s. It’s on Bayswater Road, across the street from the Black Lion Gate, which opens onto the Broad Walk in Kensington Gardens. I like to think J. M. Barrie may have eaten here, considering he lived just a few blocks away.
Here’s The Black Lion’s fish and chips:
The book, incidentally, is Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig, and very good. So was the food!
And here’s my version of fish and chips–which also turned out tasty. 🙂
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Saturday Snapshot: 221B Baker Street
One of my many literary pilgrimages while I was in London and Paris included a trip to a very famous address–221B Baker Street, the home of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. I had heard it was a tourist trap and was pleasantly surprised that it was better than reported. I wrote more about it as part of a book review earlier this week, so today–pictures!
It all rather makes me want to read another Holmes book.
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Saturday Snapshot: Travel Books
I got back last week from my trip to London and Paris 🙂 and still need to do a lot of sorting through my nearly 800 photos! So rest assured, you’ll be seeing many travel photos in weeks to come…
This week, because I haven’t figured out yet which shot of Admiral Nelson or which angle of the Peter Pan Statue is best, I have something travel-related but different. I asked blog readers for advice on books for while I traveled, so I thought I ought to share what I ended up reading!
It is SO much fun to sit in Kensington Gardens reading the last chapter of J. M. Barrie’s The Little White Bird or Adventures in Kensington Gardens, or to sit in the lower level of the Paris Opera House reading Susan Kay’s Phantom (while waiting for a tour, I wasn’t just prowling…)
I always try to bring books that will connect me to the cities I’m visiting. My trips tend to turn into literary pilgrimages to places I’ve read about, so it makes sense to read about the places while I’m there. Not everything in the stack is set in London or Paris, but Susan Kay’s Phantom was brilliant for setting me in Paris, and all the others are at least British–except The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery which has nothing to do with anything. But L. M. Montgomery falls into the “don’t leave home without it” category.
And I had a nice time reading Montgomery’s nature poetry while on a boat on the Thames. So it all worked out.
And these were all good books, most of which I plan to review. Besides sorting photos, I have lots of book reviews to write…
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Saturday Snapshot: Faux Paris
I anticipate getting some wonderful shots of London and Paris in the near future–but in the meantime, this week I have fake Paris.
This is the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The Eiffel Tower is immediately obvious, but I had to get farther away and at this angle before it was clear that the middle building is meant to resemble the Paris Opera House. Or possibly the Library of Congress…
Here’s the real Opera House, until I can get there for a picture myself!
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Tales of the Marvelous 