keskiviikko 25. toukokuuta 2011
Keskiviikko 25.5.
tiistai 24. toukokuuta 2011
Tiistai 24.5.
kuva maanantailta
kuva keskiviikolta
Aamulla klo 9.oo lähdimme kiertoajelulle, jossa oli mukana suomalainen opas. Kiersimme Lontoon nähtävyyksiä ja näimme mm. Tower Bridgen (rakennettu 1862), London Eyen, Big Benin ja Westminster Abbeyn. Opimme, että Lontoossa on 32 kuntaa, joilla on itsehallinto. Kiertoajelu kesti neljä tuntia ja kävimme syömässä Walkers Wine & Ale baarissa. Ostettuamme metroliput, suuntasimme Harrodsille. Samalla kävimme myös muissa lähiympäristön liikkeissä. Tämän jälkeen tulimme päivälliselle merimieskirkolle. Illalla kävimme vielä Tescossa.
maanantai 23. toukokuuta 2011
lontoo blogi
tiistai 22. maaliskuuta 2011
Hyde Park
It was Charles I who changed the nature of the park completely. He had the Ring (north of the present Serpentine boathouses) created and in 1637 opened the park to the general public.
Towards the end of the 17th century William III moved his court to Kensington Palace.
For the 2012 Summer Olympics, the park will host the triathlon and the 10 km open water swimming events. The park is also planning on holding the 2012 Iron Man competition.
maanantai 21. maaliskuuta 2011
London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collection of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of transportation in the city.
The museum's main facility is located in a Victorian iron and glass building that originally formed part of the Covent Garden vegetable, fruit and flower market. It was designed as a dedicated flower market by William Rogers in 1871 and is located between Russell Street, Tavistock Street, Wellington Street and the east side of the former market square. The market moved out in 1971, and the building was first occupied by the London Transport Museum in 1980. Previously the collection had been located at Syon Park since 1973 and before that had formed part of the British Transport Museum at Clapham.
The entrance to the museum is from the Covent Garden Piazza, amongst the Piazza's many tourist attractions. The museum is within walking distance from both Covent Garden tube station and Charing Cross railway station.
The first parts of the collection were brought together at the beginning of the 20th century by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) when it began to preserve buses being retired from service. After the LGOC was taken over by the London Electric Railway (LER), the collection was expanded to include rail vehicles. It continued to expand after the LER became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in the 1930s and as the organization passed through various successor bodies up to TfL, London's current transport authority.
The collection has had a number of homes. It was housed as part of the Museum of British Transport at a disused tram depot in Clapham High Street (now a supermarket) from 1963 to 1972, and then in Brentford from 1973 to 1977, before being moved to Covent Garden in 1980. Most of the other exhibits moved to York on formation of the National Railway Museum in 1975.
The Covent Garden building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and rail vehicles from 19th and 20th centuries as well as artifacts and exhibits related to the operation and marketing of passenger services and the impact that the developing transport network has had on the city and its population.
Harrods
Harrods is a leading department store located on 87-135 Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Buenos Aires, Harrods Bank, Air Harrods, Harrods Aviation and Harrods Estates. The store occupies 20,000 m2 site and has over 90,000 m2 of selling space in over 330 departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the size with 50,000 m2 of selling space. The Harrods motto is All Things for All People, Everywhere. Other of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous. Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1,5 billion (miljardia).
Services and products
The store's 330 departments offer a large selection of services and products. Products on offer include clothing for every kind of customer (men, women, children, and infants), electronics, jewellery, sporting gear, bridal trousseau, pets and pet accessories, toys, food and drink, health and beauty items, packaged gifts, stationery, housewares, home appliances, furniture, and more. A representative sample of store services includes 32 restaurants, serving everything from high tea to pub food to tapas to haute cuisine, a personal shopping-assistance programme, a watch repair service, a tailor, a dispensing pharmacy, a beauty spa and salon, a barbers shop, Harrods Financial Services, Harrods Bank, Ella Jade Bathroom Planning and Design Service, private events catering and planning, food delivery, a wine steward bespoke "picnic" hampers and gift boxes, bespoke cakes, and bespoke fragrance formulations. Up to 300,000 customers visit the store on peak days, comprising the highest proportion of customers from non-English speaking countries of any department store in London. More than five thousand staff from over fifty different countries work at Harrods. As of the 15 October 2009, Harrods Bank has started selling gold bars and coins that customers can buy. The gold products range from 1 g to 12.5 kg. They also offer storage services. Selling back gold to Harrods is possible in the future.
http://www.harrods.com/
Piccadilly Circus
sunnuntai 20. maaliskuuta 2011
The National Gallery of London
The National Gallery
The National Gallery in London is very famous for its magnificent collection of art. There are over 2300 paintings. They are dated from the 13th century to 1900. The gallery was founded in 1824 and it is on Trafalgar Square. The main building was designed by William Wilkins. The style is neo-classical. The National Gallery belongs to the people of the United Kingdom. Entry to the main collection is free but special exhibitions may be chargeable.
The main collection of the National Gallery was based on Sir Robert Walpole’s own collection but the British Government has expanded the gallery ever since. It has always been important to the British Government to collect high quality art. The British Empire has thus shown its power and wealth to other nations. Money and art pieces have also been donated to the museum.
The National Gallery has many masterpieces from old masters. Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Turner, Canaletto, Raphael, Botticelli, Van Gogh and many other famous painters have left their marks on the gallery.
The gallery is so large that you can’t see all the paintings. It would take ages to explore the whole collection. So it’s important to make your own route to visit the highlights of the museum. The timing of a visit is important too. To avoid queuing at the doors of the museum you should wake up early and go there immediately when it opens in the morning.
One masterpiece which I like very much is one version of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. He has made eleven versions of this painting and one of them is in the National Gallery. The Sunflowers was painted in 1888 in France. Especially I like the many different shades of yellow. I have seen the painting but you should see it for yourself. Please, visit the National Gallery in London!
The man who never sold any paintings in his life time signed his paintings with only the first name.
lauantai 12. maaliskuuta 2011
Battle Of Britain
Brittiläinen ruokakulttuuri
Brittiläisen ruokakulttuurin tunnetuin osuus on ehdottomasti englantilainen aamiainen. Siihen kuuluu munia keitettyinä, paistettuna tai munakokkelina, paistettua pekonia, paahtoleipää, teetä tai kahvia. Usein tarjotaan myös paistettuja herkkusieniä, paistettuja tomaatteja ja valkeita papuja tomaattikastikkeessa.
perjantai 11. maaliskuuta 2011
Afternoon Tea
Iso-Britannia on maailman suurin teenjuojamaa. Britit juovat teetä 20 kertaa enemmän kuin ranskalaiset ja kuusi - seitsemän kertaa enemmän kuin ruotsalaiset. Tänäkin päivänä Lontoossa juodaan 20 miljoonaa kuppia teetä. Tee on siis briteille todellinen elinehto.Englannissa teetä juodaan usein maidon ja sokerin kanssa, ja englantilainen kello viiden iltapäivätee on yli 300 vuotta vanha perinne. Ilmiönä teenjuonti yleistyi Englannissa portugalilaisen Katariina Braganzalaisen (1638–1705) myötäjäisten myötä vuoden 1662 jälkeen Englannin saatua Bombayn sataman.
Erilaisista teerituaaleista juuri Afternoon Tea on brittiläisen teekulttuurin kruununjalokivi. Sen äidiksi on mainittu Bedfordin seitsemäs herttuautar Anna. Hän nimittäin alkoi vuoden 1840 paikkeilla varata itselleen pienen teehetken myöhään iltapäivästä. Aterioiden järjestys oli siihen aikaan hyvinkin toisenlainen kuin nykyisin. Päivä alkoi muhkealla aamiaisella, mutta lounas oli vain välipala, joka haukattiin yleensä omassa yksinäisyydessä ilman palveluskunnan apua. Illallisen vuoro tuli vasta kahdeksan tai joskus jopa yhdeksän aikaan illasta.
Koska herttuattaren vatsa alkoi iltapäivän mittaan kurista pahaenteisesti, hän rupesi kaikessa hiljaisuudessa nauttimaan teetä erilaisten särvinten kera loppuiltapäivästä. Huhu herttuattaren uudesta tavasta lähti kiertämään, ja yhä useampi kohtalotoveri liittyi mukaan teepöytään. Purtavan määrä kasvoi sitä mukaan kuin teevieraidenkin, ja niin iltapäivätee valloitti pysyvän sijan Ison-Britannian tapakulttuurissa.
Afternoon Tea tarkoittaa perinteisesti pientä kannullista teetä ja useimmiten lisäksi maitoa, sokeria ja sitruunaa sekä suupalaksi muutamia erilaisia kolmikulmaisia voileipiä, skonsseja, voita ja marmeladia sekä päätteeksi makeaa leivosta tai viipaloitua torttua.