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Okay, so another thing that I did during my week off was get up at the crack of dawn to catch a bus up to London and spend the day hanging out with my cousin Huw. Huw always tries to make the effort to come down to Cardiff for family stuff - most recently, Uncle Col's 70th birthday bash - and always asks when I'm coming 'up the Smoke', I think he feels a bit isolated from the rest of the family, so we arranged this day out together.
This is Huw. This is the view of him that everyone gets, because he never comes out from behind that camera!
It is a very nice camera. I'm jealous of the gorgeous pictures it takes - but not of the weight of it to carry around!
We went to the Tower of London, currently dominated by the stunning Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red display, which marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I - a sea of ceramic poppies, each one representing a life lost in the war. The poppies are beautiful and the display is extraordinarily striking, really driving its point home - especially when you consider that, with just under 300,000 poppies being made, this still represents only a tiny fraction of the total loss of life.
After admiring the display for a while, we finally made it inside the Tower - which was packed, of course, being school holidays. It's a really big place and we didn't have a huge amount of time, so we struggled to get around the whole thing before closing, but we gave it our best and I think we saw all the important bits. I particularly liked this hidden assassin, crossbow squarely pointed out through an arrow slit toward the traitor's gate.
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All in all, a lovely day out - I even escaped with my head still on my shoulders!
This is Huw. This is the view of him that everyone gets, because he never comes out from behind that camera!
It is a very nice camera. I'm jealous of the gorgeous pictures it takes - but not of the weight of it to carry around!
We went to the Tower of London, currently dominated by the stunning Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red display, which marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I - a sea of ceramic poppies, each one representing a life lost in the war. The poppies are beautiful and the display is extraordinarily striking, really driving its point home - especially when you consider that, with just under 300,000 poppies being made, this still represents only a tiny fraction of the total loss of life.
After admiring the display for a while, we finally made it inside the Tower - which was packed, of course, being school holidays. It's a really big place and we didn't have a huge amount of time, so we struggled to get around the whole thing before closing, but we gave it our best and I think we saw all the important bits. I particularly liked this hidden assassin, crossbow squarely pointed out through an arrow slit toward the traitor's gate.
( Cut for length - click for more! )
All in all, a lovely day out - I even escaped with my head still on my shoulders!
