After recently moving house I uncovered a box of my old photographs from my junior high and early high school years, undoubtably taken on a hundred or so Kodak disposable cameras. Included amongst the photographs of friends, Disneyland and parties was a series from my trip to London in the autumn of 2004.
This particular trip was special for three reasons:
Here are some of the gems I found starting with a jet-lagged sixteen-year-old me at our hotel, The Rubens At The Palace...
- It was to celebrate my sweet sixteen
- It was my first trip to England.
- It cemented me as an anglophile forever.
Here are some of the gems I found starting with a jet-lagged sixteen-year-old me at our hotel, The Rubens At The Palace...
Funny story, we originally were in just a normal room but the toliet decided to turn into a fountain and we were promptly upgraded to the beautiful Clarence Suite.
I love the Autumnal colours in this photograph of St. James' Park. If you look closely you can see Big Ben in the background.
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| "If the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it." |
For a Harry Potter fan, no trip to London would be complete without a trip to Platform 9 and 3/4 at King's Cross station!
And finally... one of the most cliché tourist photographs in all the world - posing with a red telephone box. I'd like the think the double decker bus in the background makes it slightly different. Does any tourist visiting London not have a photograph with a red telephone box? I think not!
Q: Have you ever travelled somewhere that made a big impact on your life?
Gotta love those travel throwbacks! I love the pictures! They're totally vintage and if there was a filter to make all my pictures look like this, I would certainly apply it all the time ;) Also how come that you had such a nice fashion sense as a sixteen year old? I always looked like a drag queen with too much make up and purple clothes :D