This is the blog of Mark Wordsworm, the travelling worm. I’m a 25-year-old bookmark (I haven’t aged at all since I first wrote this introduction) and I proudly boast my own Hallmark serial number, 95 HBM 80-1. You’ll probably want to read all about me and my Travelling Companion (the TC).
Today’s travel notes
Me, Peg, and the TC, are in London. We hobnobbed with high society today, strolling along Prince Consort Road and drifting around Kensington Palace. I found the time to grace fans with my presence at the Royal Albert Hall too, hanging out at the stage door with Peg.
My impressions? The British know how to throw a good building.
Travel tip
Beware the traffic. There’s very little distinction between the pavement and the road on Exhibition Road.
Word of the day
Hygge is the word of the day. It means coziness, an atmosphere where you feel hugged, somewhere welcoming, a feeling of belonging.
The book I’m in
De Zoon, by Jo Nesbø. A gritty tale of good gone bad, and bad gone raw. The TC has chosen to read this book in Dutch, because she wants to brush up her skills in that language, and the original book was written in Norwegian anyway. This worm appreciates the good translation. The quality of the translation is essential to the flavour of the book.
The photos
Me and Peg hanging out at Kensington Palace gardens:
At the start of our route up Exhibition Road towards the palace, the TC inadvertently took these two shots showing man imitating art. The little walking man on the traffic signal is red and stationary. The real man seems to mimic his pose:
The little walking-man sign is green, and…
Well, the TC found that amusing anyway. Bless her cotton mittens.
Here’s the rest of the shot that the TC was intending to take. Hygge in a square on Exhibition Road, near Thurloe Place, Kensington:
The sky photobombed this picture of the Natural History Museum on Exhibition Road:
The Victoria & Albert Museum:
Columns and dormers and spires on Prince Consort Road, Kensington:
We approached the Royal Albert Hall from the backstreets. The frieze around the roof is 800 feet long and covers 5,200 square feet:
Peg and I hung out for a while at the stage door, giving our fans the opportunity to see us in the wild. The TC did a good job of keeping them civilised, though there was one enquiry from a concerned security guard who wondered if we were supposed to be there.
“Is that supposed to be there?” he asked.
“Yes”, replied the TC. “He’s a famous blogger. This is a photo op.”
“Ah,” came the reply. “On the Internet? Right, carry on then.”
And so we did:
I gave my fans another photo op at the Albert Memorial:
Guards on horseback were there to keep the crowds safe:
A trapeze artist arched through the air in Hyde Park:
The clean lines of Kensington Palace sit cosily on the green. Royal hygge, perhaps:
The entranceway to Kensington Palace reminds me of a glasshouse (a gezellig one):
An English country garden, fit for a queen:
Going back to the plebs via Queen’s Gate Terrace:
That’s all for today, folks.
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