Hello!
I've decided to start my blog with a brief overview of my trip to
England. A trip that's been the icing on the cake of almost twenty years of
teaching English and talking about London and its landmarks, the Royal Family,
Received Pronunciation and so forth.
From the moment I became a teacher, I spent many years longing and waiting to have firsthand experience of what England, or at least, London was like. And that waiting came to an end on July 10th,2018
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| View from the London Eye |
I'm sharing my view on the London I saw with a sloppy poem and some
pictures.
The London I saw was...
The London...
Of driving on the left
Of double-deckers and cabs
Of pelican crossings and zigzag
street lines
Of repurposed phone booths
Of walks by the Thames
And bicycle lights projecting green bikes
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| A colourful cab and a double-decker bus |
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| The London eye and the London aquarium |
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| A cycleway |
The London...
Of the thousand accents
Of locals and foreigners
Of Strike-a-pose photographs at
Buckingham gates
Of fish, chips and mushy peas
Of pints outside pubs
And the free museums and galleries just great
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| Buckingham Palace gates |
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| A pub |
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| The National Gallery |
The London...
Of leafy railed squares
Of lakes, ponds and gardens
Of geraniums, squirrels, gulls,
swans and geese
Of dogs seldom barking
Of ravens in the Tower
And Green Park & Hyde Park &
20p to pee!
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| Hyde Park |
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| Hyde Park |
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| Buckingham Palace flower beds |
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| The Tower of London |
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| "The Raven" |
The London...
Of Camden and Greenwich
Of London Eye Rides
Of Trafalgar, Piccadilly, Bloomsbury
and more
Of the Gherkin and the Shard
Of the Globe and the Abbey
And that, dear fellows, was the
London I saw
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| Camden |
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| Tower Bridge with iconic buildings in the backpround |
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| The Royal Observatory at Greenwich |
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| The Globe Theatre |
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| Piccadilly Circus |
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| Abbey Road |
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| Piccadilly Circus |
This was the London I saw!
This text was originally written in September 2018 in my first attempt to write a blog.
