Twinkleberry

London

19 Apr in Brush Cottage, Links | Comments (1)

I love London – From the moment I get there I feel as though there are a million exciting things that I am missing out on. Having said that – I do feel as though I have the best of both worlds – our home is in a very picturesque, typically English village – with a real sense of community and we are very lucky to live here. It’s also only an hour on the train to Waterloo. Added to that are a very hospitable sister and brother in law – who never mind us invading for the odd weekend….

We spent this weekend in London – and with perfect weather, it couldn’t have been a nicer place to be! Tessa brought a friend along – the lovely little Miss F.

T&F

We took the girls to the amazing exhibition at Kensington Palace – The Enchanted Palace – It’s a collaboration of some amazing designers and actors who  have transformed some of the rooms to tell the story of some of the woman who have lived there  and it’s very, very well done – truly an enchantment!

We took a walk past the Albert Memorial – a favorite spot of mine  – so poignant and romantic.

Albert-Memorial

Yesterday, we took advantage of the perfect weather to visit Kew Gardens – The Magnolia’s are in flower right now, and they are a favorite of mine, a sight to behold.

Magnolia

Kew have some amazing artwork/sculpture too:

Kew-Sculpture

There were also trees to climb (although that might be frowned upon!)

Trees-to-climb

But I have to be truthful here – our real reason for heading in this direction was to visit a Pizza restaurant…… not jut any old Pizza restaurant, oh no, this one is special…..run by real Italians – wearing proper funny hats…..

Italian-Chef

And who serve homemade lemonade in these pretty bottles…..

lemonade

Who make salads, laced with delicious honey and mustard dressing…

salad

But we came for the Pizza…. the sourdough Pizza….. the authentic Pizza, cooked in a traditional woodburning oven , imported from Italy, that takes longer than a week to heat to the optimimum temperature…..

oven

And it was worth it! A trip to Chiswick just to eat at Franco Manca is worth it!

Pizza

1 Comment »

  1. yes jenni, you are right the weather was lovly and i enjoyed it sooo much!! little miss F

    Comment by Freya reeves — May 12, 2010 @ 7:26 pm

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