Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Note: My apologies! There's something wrong with Blogger, so the words are all clumped up! Bear with me and hopefully the next time it will be fixed! 12th March 2011: Saturday We left Cotswolds early in the morning,
and arrived in
London noon-ish.
We headed straight to
Hyde Park,
since it was near our hotel.
..And we found this strange tree. o__o The only reasonable explaination I can come up of,
is that it was struck by lightning, and half of it just stopped growing after that. :S
[
It's probably not true.]
And we turned into the walkway towards
Kensington Palace.
We were greeted by the Sunkun Garden. [
Though I'm not sure why they call it 'sunken'..]
Then there was the pathway towards the Orangery. [
Apparently, you can eat and drink like a princess there.
Who knows? *shrugs*]
And finally, we took the route to the
Enchanted Palace.
Note: I wasn't allowed to take pictures in the palace. The Enchanted Palace was basically, the home of
7 princesses.
[
Some became queens.]
So we were supposed to 'find' the princesses.. [
It was kinda creepy at certain points.]
And most of the stories were
tragic.
Psst! If you can make out the black crow there, I think it was alive once! It is still an experience worth going at least once though. After that, we went to
Portobello Market because it was supposedly good.
And I guess so if you're looking for good buys and antiques,
but since we couldn't carry lots of stuff back,
the only interesting feature of the market was the
blooming blossoms.
[
Sounds like an oxymoron!]
Ah.. The first sign of spring. 
Update on time: 6 pm My mum and I are late! Hailing a taxi, we rushed to St.Katherine's docks,
to
Ivory House, where the
Medieval Banquet [
MB] is held.
Note: Because most of my photos are dark, I'll be using some from the MB Website. 
There are several arches like these with tables in them, and this is before everyone is admitted, so it looks really neat.
[
Wait till it's full and past 11pm. You'll know what I mean.]
Like it was straight out of the medieval era! 
Our wench for the night. [
It was not meant to be an insult!
She told us to call her a 'wench'!]
There were some programmes while we ate, and part of the acrobats
involved the
poor jester having to learn how to unicycle. :S
Of course, there were
musicians too.
Though,
I didn't know that they had electric guitars in those days.. 
The Queen! *bows* [
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to take a good picture of King Henry VIII. But that's alright. He just looks the way he's portrayed in most pictures.]
And there was some
sword fighting among the
knights too.
Also, there were many interactive parts for the audience..
Like shouting and clapping,
[
so it was unbelievably noisy and crazy.]
and we had like some
medieval/village dance or something.
Like everyone holds hands and jump in a circle.
And there were
costumes for rent too!
Check out my neighbours! 
Left to right: Monk, Snow White, Lady from Court [I presume],
Monk, Queen, Crusader [
The King was in the loo. Haha]
The wench and the Royal Couple. [
It was her birthday. :)]
The food was pretty good!
So I expect that I should have been able to, be quite fat,
even during the medieval times!
But main beverages were
red wine and
ale.
[
I didn't notice the water till it was too late.]
And I was REALLY thirsty.
I know that the more I drink, the more thirsty I get.
So I guess what I did was really foolish.
I ended up not being able to walk in a straight line.
But don't worry,
nobody had to carry me home.
But it was an interesting experience!
So if you wish to book tickets to the Medieval Banquet,
check out this link below! http://www.medievalbanquet.com/index.html Ale anyone? -End-
