Little Venice & Kew Gardens

• On January 11th, Sunday, I just walked around my neighborhood for a change. Recently, strolling around London has been getting my favorite pastime. The sites which I've never visited always interest me, and make me forget my daily routine for a while. In addition, it reminds me of the fact that I AM in a foreign country, and I'd better make the most use of this special opportunity in my life. In the morning on this day, I was looking at the map in search of any places suitable for a short trip of a few hours. Then, I found some tourist attraction called "Little Venice" was located very near my dormitory. I checked my tourist guide book as well, and I learned that you could take a narrow boat from there to Camden Rock Market through London Zoo on weekdays. This sounded really fun to me. Although I knew that I couldn't do it because it was Sunday, I set out in any way with my camera as usual. The scene was fantastic, it didn't seem like one of the areas in London, the busy metropolitan. It was like, just a few minutes walk took me to the spot like the countryside. I could see lots of boats on the canal, along which I took a walk for a while. As the picture below shows, some parts of the canal were frozen because of the chilly weather in those days, which surprised me very much, indeed. When leaving the site, I thought that I would come here again to take the narrow boat for tourists to Camden Rock Market.
• On January 16th, I took a short bus tour to Kew Gardens by myself. Since I got a 6-month bus pass last October, I have always wanted to take advantage of it. The guide book tells that the fastest way to get there is taking an underground to the nearest station, but in fact you can go there by bus if you have time. I realized this through my investigation beforehand. Therefore, I took several buses in relay, and I could manage to arrive at the destination. The last bus I got on was no.391 to Richmond, from which you can also go to Hampton Court Palace by taking another bus. I will try this next time. I entered the garden around 3pm, which made the admission fee cheaper by 1 pound for the late entry. The attraction was supposed to close at 4:15pm that day. Although it was a bit cloudy, I could shoot some nice photographs. I was a bit in haste to look all the facilities, but I think I didn't miss any of them, though I had to run sometimes. Some of the scenes I met there really fascinated me very much. One of them is shown below as the picture I like, though it does not enough describe its magnificence. As a whole, I enjoyed looking around the traditional British garden.