Wednesday 31 October 2012

Tuesday- London


The Shard


Tony, looking like a londoner!


We went to find london bridge- to sing to it (Tony was going to be the fair lady) but when we got there it was kinda busy. too busy for singing.



HMS belfast. and the tower of london.




Umbrellas!


A palace- wessex palace? maybe? either way, its kinda gone now.


The Golden Hind








Monday- Citywalls and bosnian food


Mummy McD on the city walls




Roman ruins



bombed out house remains




Anchors!



Jacks striking the hour on top of the rectors palace


All the shutters on the Stradun are painted the same colour green.




We went for dinner at the Taj Mahal resturant- which serves Bosnia cuisine


Stuffed peppers to start..




lamb kebab, jacket potato and aubergine


aubergine stuffed with cream cheese and coleslaw.


very thin veal, filled with cream cheese and turkey, also served with a potato. and fresh unleven bread.


Chamomile tea and turkish delight!



Followed by more cocktails, pudding and an early night tucked up in bed watching bridget jones 2 in french with subtitles.

Sunday- My Croatian birthday!


Cards! :) on holidays!


More teeny weeny streets- we were looking for the theatre museum and the ethnographic museum.


Jars in someones kitchen window- with faces!

The Ethnographic museum was really cool- its in an old grain store which is weird- and its got medieval paintings on the walls- medieval grafiti! mostly religious.

These are Wedding night quilts- the pattern is "thrusting mushrooms". I will never think of mushrooms in the same way again!



Mum and the mushrooms.



National dress.


We then went to the theatre museum. which was weird. really really weird. and like 3 items.

From there we went to the rectors palace:





inside the palace they had an exhibition of war photographs- its really sad- especially when you think the children in the photos are maybe in their 30s- they're our age! the destruction of the city was scary. you can see it in the photos of the city from the walls- the brightly coloured rooves have had to be replaced as they were bombed.


there was a state funded Dispensing chemist in the rectors palace for the poor- these are their jars!




Smiley birthday fruit plate!

It was piddling down and all our shoes were wet- so we had dinner in the hotel. followed by drinks.. and more drinks..



Birthday champagne cocktails!



Birthday cake.. although, it's more of a mousse.



more birthday cocktails.. my mum has a photo pf me adorning the lions on the hotel stairs with umbrellas... a good day and a good evening was had by all (especially the lions)