Week 9: 1 - 7 June 2015
This week Roslyn had another event, this time at Imperial War Museum at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire. It is a museum based out of an aircraft hangar, that explores the history of aviation through times of war and peace. Visitors are invited to enter and view inside the planes on display.
On Friday evening, we visited Walkabout at Temple, one of the last remaining Australian themed bars operating in the UK.
Although our night out at Walkabout was not an overly big or late one, half of the Saturday had already gone before we finally departed home the next day. We stopped outside Australia House on our way to the original Twinings tea store. This store reputedly has London's smallest shopfront, being only marginally wider than its doorway, and the neighbouring buildings also tower above it.
Given the prospect of warm weather, on Sunday we boarded a train to one of Londoners favourite hang outs, Brighton. We experienced first hand the discomfort of pebble beaches but enjoyed the convenience of leaving the beach sand free, and admired the wide range of cafés, bars, art and gift shops lining the ocean front.
We strolled out to the iconic Brighton Pier (historically known as The Palace Pier), which dates back to 1899 and features countless fairground attractions. Brighton previously had 2 piers, with the nearby West Pier once hosting a theatre and concert hall. West Pier was closed in 1975 due to safety concerns, and since then has been ravaged by storms and fires and left to decay into the mere skeleton of its once grand self that can be seen today.
The spectacular, former seaside home of George IV is also nearby, a palace reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. Today, visitors are free to roam the gardens and can pay to enter the palace.
Highlights for the week:
- Roslyn visited Cambridge for work
- Aussies in London drinks at the Walkabout Temple
- Visited Australia House on the Strand
- Shopped at the original Twinings tea store
- Day trip to Brighton
- Pebble beach
- Brighton Pier and wheel
- Remains of the West Pier
- Royal Pavilion (Taj Mahal of England!)
- Beach huts at Hove Lawns
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