I wish you lots of LOVE - beautiful and simple!
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Favourite Day of The Year
Happy 2012, everyone! Do not let your dreams be dreams!
I wish you lots of LOVE - beautiful and simple!
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I wish you lots of LOVE - beautiful and simple!
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¤ ¤ ¤ З Калядами! ¤ Merry Christmas! ¤ С наступающим! ¤ Wesołych Świąt! ¤ God Jul! ¤ Feliz Navidad! ¤ ¤ ¤
Have a happy, warm and cosy Christmas with your friends and family! Wouldn't you agree it is a good time to actually follow a couple of family traditions, cook something really really good and spend some time just lazing around in your pyjamas, having winter style coffees, watching movies or just reading beside your Christmas tree. Make some time for that. Have good fun!
photos by Arek
photos by Arek
A Bit of Culture
My dear friend Ti came to visit us for a couple of days and we spent what one could call a very cultural weekend together :)
We started our weekend on Friday night with a dinner at a Chinese buffet in China town which looked bright and colourful even in the pouring rain.
Due to Ti's efforts of getting up at 6am to queue in the cold wind with other hundreds of people in front of The National Gallery - all willing to get tickets which were long before bought out and sold on the internet for up to 350 pounds - we managed to visit Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. The exhibition - the first of its kind anywhere in the world - is the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held.
Next on our agenda was Windsor castle, which is quite an impressive architectural structure and holds a very big collection of art belonging to the British Royal Family. Windsor is a very pleasant town to spend a day in - it has a small cosy centre with little shops and nice cafes. As it appears that tickets to Windsor Castle are valid for the whole year, we'll definitely come back to both the town and the Castle some time in spring.
Below are the pictures of some of my favourite Windsor Castle rooms. I was also curious to learn that the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree was brought over to the Royal Family from Germany and it was Queen Victoria who made this a wide-spread tradition across the country and probably all Europe by letting a picture of the Royal Family around Christmas tree being published in a newspaper in 1848.
The King's Bed Chamber
The Crimson Drawing Room
The Green Drawing Room
Our journey that day ended with a visit to an Indian restaurant on Brick Lane by which we again incorporated a whole new bit of a different culture into our weekend :).
Next day we were pretty tired after the previous trip and as it was too hard to get up early, we decided to take it easy and after breakfast at home we headed to one of the biggest bookshops in London - right next to Charing Cross and Trafalgar square, where we spent good couple of hours and I bought a couple of books I'm looking forward to be inspired by very soon.
It was easy to take a walk straight to Westminster from Trafalgar - we were lucky to be passing by Royal Mews at exactly 4PM to be able to see the daily Queen's Lifeguards and Horses inspection. Straight after to warm ourselves up and sit down we dropped by St Stephens Tavern - a very traditional pub just opposite The Houses of Parliament - for some afternoon tea and a quick snack.
I was truly taken by surprise with my Baked Potato dish - which turned up to be very tasty - as I have previously never been a fan of this typically British dish.
images by Arek, Olga and TI except for those from Windsor Castle, Chinatown and Brick Lane
The last highlight of the weekend was the organ recital at Westminster Abbey we visited, which was also one of the not many reasons you would normally be let inside the Abbey as these days it is closed for visitors more often than not.
We started our weekend on Friday night with a dinner at a Chinese buffet in China town which looked bright and colourful even in the pouring rain.
Due to Ti's efforts of getting up at 6am to queue in the cold wind with other hundreds of people in front of The National Gallery - all willing to get tickets which were long before bought out and sold on the internet for up to 350 pounds - we managed to visit Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. The exhibition - the first of its kind anywhere in the world - is the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held.
Next on our agenda was Windsor castle, which is quite an impressive architectural structure and holds a very big collection of art belonging to the British Royal Family. Windsor is a very pleasant town to spend a day in - it has a small cosy centre with little shops and nice cafes. As it appears that tickets to Windsor Castle are valid for the whole year, we'll definitely come back to both the town and the Castle some time in spring.
Below are the pictures of some of my favourite Windsor Castle rooms. I was also curious to learn that the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree was brought over to the Royal Family from Germany and it was Queen Victoria who made this a wide-spread tradition across the country and probably all Europe by letting a picture of the Royal Family around Christmas tree being published in a newspaper in 1848.
The King's Bed Chamber
The Crimson Drawing Room
The Green Drawing Room
Our journey that day ended with a visit to an Indian restaurant on Brick Lane by which we again incorporated a whole new bit of a different culture into our weekend :).
Next day we were pretty tired after the previous trip and as it was too hard to get up early, we decided to take it easy and after breakfast at home we headed to one of the biggest bookshops in London - right next to Charing Cross and Trafalgar square, where we spent good couple of hours and I bought a couple of books I'm looking forward to be inspired by very soon.
It was easy to take a walk straight to Westminster from Trafalgar - we were lucky to be passing by Royal Mews at exactly 4PM to be able to see the daily Queen's Lifeguards and Horses inspection. Straight after to warm ourselves up and sit down we dropped by St Stephens Tavern - a very traditional pub just opposite The Houses of Parliament - for some afternoon tea and a quick snack.
I was truly taken by surprise with my Baked Potato dish - which turned up to be very tasty - as I have previously never been a fan of this typically British dish.
images by Arek, Olga and TI except for those from Windsor Castle, Chinatown and Brick Lane
The last highlight of the weekend was the organ recital at Westminster Abbey we visited, which was also one of the not many reasons you would normally be let inside the Abbey as these days it is closed for visitors more often than not.
Everyone Is In London!
39 degrees of body temperature, strangely strong literary cravings, magic autumn lights, crispy colours and colds, China buffet in China Town, boat trip at sunset, sexy voice... and almost no voice at all, the Big Smoke, yet another reunion with old friends, foggy Sunday, enjoyment of work and 'planment' of b-day ...
... and too much paperpaperpaperworkworkwork to do. But that's next week..
This week I'm going back to Gdansk for a long weekend, which is going to be so much fun!! Overexcited :) Envy me!
this superb image is by Arek
... and too much paperpaperpaperworkworkwork to do. But that's next week..
This week I'm going back to Gdansk for a long weekend, which is going to be so much fun!! Overexcited :) Envy me!
this superb image is by Arek
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Artsy Post Tonight
A couple of pretty great things for tonight I wanted to share with you, guys..
.......First of all let's see if you enjoy this multicoloured blurrrinesss:
Secondly, here are my current 2 favourite things from Tate Modern - these amazing hand crafted and hand painted ceramic sunflower seeds by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained by Chinese authorities this year and spent several months under arrest for political reasons.
images via Google
And this floating gauzy red staircase by the Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
image by Arek
Actually, another interesting work by Ai Weiwei is the one below. The caption to this self-portrait of him, called 草泥马挡中央 or "grass mud horse covering the middle" sounds almost the same in Chinese as 肏你妈党中央, "Fuck you, the Communist party central committee". Grass mud horse or 'Cao Ní Ma' is a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China. The 'horse' is actually what he is holding in his hand.
image via Google
Do also check out this Atlantida-esque underwater exhibition by Jason deCaires Taylor, it is very impressive - especially with all the algae on top of the sculptures, which created some sort of art of their own.
image from underwatersculpture
Lastly, I'm dying to go to this musical here in London based on the movie also called Backbeat, which was my favourite movie when I was a kid.
Let me know what you are up to these days and if you know about any other interesting things going on close to you around the world :)... G'night..
.......First of all let's see if you enjoy this multicoloured blurrrinesss:
Secondly, here are my current 2 favourite things from Tate Modern - these amazing hand crafted and hand painted ceramic sunflower seeds by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained by Chinese authorities this year and spent several months under arrest for political reasons.
images via Google
And this floating gauzy red staircase by the Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
image by Arek
Actually, another interesting work by Ai Weiwei is the one below. The caption to this self-portrait of him, called 草泥马挡中央 or "grass mud horse covering the middle" sounds almost the same in Chinese as 肏你妈党中央, "Fuck you, the Communist party central committee". Grass mud horse or 'Cao Ní Ma' is a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China. The 'horse' is actually what he is holding in his hand.
image via Google
Do also check out this Atlantida-esque underwater exhibition by Jason deCaires Taylor, it is very impressive - especially with all the algae on top of the sculptures, which created some sort of art of their own.
image from underwatersculpture
Lastly, I'm dying to go to this musical here in London based on the movie also called Backbeat, which was my favourite movie when I was a kid.
Let me know what you are up to these days and if you know about any other interesting things going on close to you around the world :)... G'night..
I Often Think Of You. Imagine. Come On...
A story from today.........................................................................................
check out the story on my Tumblr
This ^^ Weekend..
You know those moments when the light is so good that you just can't pass by without taking a photo. These are the only occasions we actually notice the light. This time it was so soft and warm and foggy.. almost inexistent.
images by Olga
PENETRATING, PROVOCATIVE and Somewhat BLURRY
Sharing some of my recent sunny and blurry London impressions... I liked the way autumn colours came out on the blurry pics I took. Also, I'm currently having a big blurrrrr of experiences here in London. With so many things going on, one needs to really choose what to do here and life is happening very fast (this apparently is with exception of getting an internet connection, which took us almost a month, hence all my lack of posting!). But the choice of what to do for fun (and where to fly cheap!) is tough and seems to be almost endless :)
Some of the things which happened to me over last month which I enjoyed most are The Alternative London Tours, textile field in V&A, Tate Modern - over and over again :), Greenwhich market and probably Inamo restaurant, where (good Japanese) food is being projected on your table before ordering and each table has a touch pad to order. Also, if you are yet not sure whether ice cream is sexy - check-out The Icecreamists - the SCREAM of ice cream (they even serve human milk ice cream - if you fancy trying that :)). If not, they serve their other delicious vice creams in black cones and martini glasses.
The Icecreamists
Oh, and I almost forgot! By pure luck our friends and us ended up in the House of Commons watching this very debate on a referendum on the UK leaving the EU - live. After this I surprisingly concluded that politics is kind of exciting :). For less exciting debates in the UK Parliament check out this site.
If you are interested in some more fun to do in London do check out this great book and this site!
Hope you all are having a good autumn!
V&A textile field
Inamo restaurant
all images by Olga & Arek except for those of Inamo, Icecreamists and V&A
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