80.000 stpes - Part 1
I'm running out of time! So many things to do, so little time to do them.
This weekend the adventure brought me to a lot of different places.
St Albans
A good friend recomended me to go to St Albans. It is 35 minutes far away from London if you take the train in St Pancras and you cross your fingers during a week hoping in not going to happen anything to the rail system, which is likely to be disrupted. British people is too polite. In Spain we will say... "the rail system is disrupting because a person has commited suicided". Here they say that "A person has been hit by a train". Yeah... You can choose the version you like most but it happens a lot of times.
St Pancras is a nice train station with a lot of shops and coffee shops. While I was walking to my platform a Godiva shop caught my eye, but the train was about to leave.
This is not the first time I'm in a British village, I have been in Coventry, Warwick and Oxford before. There is a difference between London and the villages. At least with St Albans. In London no one will look at you. In St Albans the 50% of the population will look at you. All the kids and elderly included.
Anyway, the village is nice. The city centre is cosy. If you go there there are some must visits:
- The clock tower: It is a clock tower from the 15th century. The tower itself is nice, but the walk from the train station to there is nicer as well.
- The cathedral: Huge. It was too sunny when I was there. I would love to see it in a cloudy, grey day. Anyway, it is worth visiting. I like to go into all the churches or temples I can. So I did with this one. As you can see in the picture the ceiling is flat and constructed in wood... which is something I'm not used to see.
- Verulamium Park: It is 5 to 10 minutes far away from the Cathedral. You have to cross the fields, turn right and go throgh a narrow corridor between an old pub and houses and suddenly, it'shown to you. Astonishing. Beatiful. A piece of nature. The park is full of children, elderly people and birds. But everything seems to calm and quiet, so quiet you can hear the nature. A lovely place to sit and read the whole afternoon.
- Whitewalls gallery: I was going to the train station. In hurry because after the amazing day, it was getting cold and dark. The shops were about to close and I don't like to be around when everyone is comming back home. I was almost running when I saw it. It was so easy on the eye, I stopped. This gallery has one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen. I entered just to look at it closer. The painter was Fabian Perez. An Argentinan artist. If you have time just check his pictures on the internet.
I completely run out of time and went to the train station. Before I realized I was in St Pancras again, to be more accurate, inside the Godiva shop I had seen before. Life is better when you have good chocolate.
This weekend the adventure brought me to a lot of different places.
St Albans
A good friend recomended me to go to St Albans. It is 35 minutes far away from London if you take the train in St Pancras and you cross your fingers during a week hoping in not going to happen anything to the rail system, which is likely to be disrupted. British people is too polite. In Spain we will say... "the rail system is disrupting because a person has commited suicided". Here they say that "A person has been hit by a train". Yeah... You can choose the version you like most but it happens a lot of times.
St Pancras is a nice train station with a lot of shops and coffee shops. While I was walking to my platform a Godiva shop caught my eye, but the train was about to leave.
This is not the first time I'm in a British village, I have been in Coventry, Warwick and Oxford before. There is a difference between London and the villages. At least with St Albans. In London no one will look at you. In St Albans the 50% of the population will look at you. All the kids and elderly included.
Anyway, the village is nice. The city centre is cosy. If you go there there are some must visits:
- The clock tower: It is a clock tower from the 15th century. The tower itself is nice, but the walk from the train station to there is nicer as well.
- The cathedral: Huge. It was too sunny when I was there. I would love to see it in a cloudy, grey day. Anyway, it is worth visiting. I like to go into all the churches or temples I can. So I did with this one. As you can see in the picture the ceiling is flat and constructed in wood... which is something I'm not used to see.
- Verulamium Park: It is 5 to 10 minutes far away from the Cathedral. You have to cross the fields, turn right and go throgh a narrow corridor between an old pub and houses and suddenly, it'shown to you. Astonishing. Beatiful. A piece of nature. The park is full of children, elderly people and birds. But everything seems to calm and quiet, so quiet you can hear the nature. A lovely place to sit and read the whole afternoon.
- Whitewalls gallery: I was going to the train station. In hurry because after the amazing day, it was getting cold and dark. The shops were about to close and I don't like to be around when everyone is comming back home. I was almost running when I saw it. It was so easy on the eye, I stopped. This gallery has one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen. I entered just to look at it closer. The painter was Fabian Perez. An Argentinan artist. If you have time just check his pictures on the internet.
I completely run out of time and went to the train station. Before I realized I was in St Pancras again, to be more accurate, inside the Godiva shop I had seen before. Life is better when you have good chocolate.
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