About One Week of London

Below are pictures pertaining to the following post. Sorry they are not in chronological order--I haven't figured out how to organize them.






*Anne Hathaway's picturesque cottage.

*Flowers in her garden.



*Creepy townspeople outside of Warwick
castle.

*A view of Warwick.

*Another view with the amazing gardens
there.


*I don't know about you, but I thought this
was a pretty cool picture.


*Orange tree table setting at the Orangery.


*The Orangery.


*Me at the Orangery--excuse my hair, we
walked in rain for 10 minutes before we
got there. The hot tea warmed us up
though!



So I'm clearly behind on my blog...

From what I can remember:

*One of the days we took a 17 hour field trip to Warwick Castle and Stratford-Upon-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace). The castle was VERY touristy with jousting, archery, among other things. It was owned by Madam Tussaud's--the wax museum company. However, it was beautiful nonetheless. Although the fog and rain made the day a bit miserable, it added mystique to the castle. After our trip to Warwick, we went to the family home of Anne Hathaway--Shakespeare's wife. The cottage had an amazing garden and much of the home was filled with furnishing from Shakespeare's time. We continued our day in Stratford where we toured a Shakespeare museum. For lunch, we had what our bus driver called a "proper" fish 'n chips place. After sitting in a pub for three hours, we saw a performance of "Taming of the Shrew". It was a long, rainy day--but very interesting and a day in which I got amazing pictures of the scenery.

*On Thursday, we found out about our internships. I am working in the marketing department of London Sports magazine. They reach out to upper-class to high middle class active Londoners as well as sports fanatics. Their readership and circulation is about 300,000. They are revamping their marketing plan so I am excited to take an active role as an intern. A few days later, I met my supervisor--Jake. He was a very nice guy who had been hired by the shareholders to improve the state of the magazine financially. I start this Thursday and am excited to learn as much as I can!

Beyond that, I don't remember much from the week. From now on though, I will try to update every two days so that I can write about all my experiences!

Now that I am kind of caught up:

Today my roommates and I dressed up for afternoon tea at the Orangery. On the way there we saw a helicopter and one of the Kensington Palace attendants told us that Prince Charles was in the it and was landing in a nearby field. I was hoping it would have been Prince Harry who would have saw me, fell madly in love and then introduce me to the Queen. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

To carry on about afternoon tea: the Orangery is a restaurant in Kensington Gardens. I don't really drink tea, but I figured (to be cliche) "when in London, do as the Londoners do". I ordered Green Lemon tea and a white chocolate almond raspberry slice of bread.
It was amazing and something I'm glad we did!







Until next time, love from London.