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London Trip - part 2.
21 Apr 2006 09:39 pmI have just got around to loading a few more of my pictures from London onto Photobucket. These are some of the ones I took at Hampton Court.
Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey for his own personal use. However Henry 8th decided that it was much too impressive for a man of God, and that Wolsey was getting a bit above himself – so he basically commandeered it as his own palace.
It is a thirty minute train journey from Waterloo station to Hampton Court – and Hampton Court Station is literally three minutes walk from the gates of the Palace. If you make this journey by train I would recommend getting your rail ticket on line – queuing for our rail ticket took twenty-five minutes, whilst for our entrance ticket – two minutes!
( Hampton Court. )
There were live events on whilst we were there – including a talk about Tudor cooking and dining. We didn’t take any pictures of this, as the crowd was quite big, and we were nowhere near the front. However one of the highlights of the day, for both of us, was the attempt of a young man standing near us to take a picture of the ‘Tudor steward’ by holding his camera up and hoping for the best. He brought the camera back down and went to look at the result – it was a perfect picture of the steward from waist to thigh – a really good close-up of his ornate cod-piece! The guy taking the photo just shook his head, but we had both spotted it, and had a lot of trouble not falling on the floor with laughter!
Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey for his own personal use. However Henry 8th decided that it was much too impressive for a man of God, and that Wolsey was getting a bit above himself – so he basically commandeered it as his own palace.
It is a thirty minute train journey from Waterloo station to Hampton Court – and Hampton Court Station is literally three minutes walk from the gates of the Palace. If you make this journey by train I would recommend getting your rail ticket on line – queuing for our rail ticket took twenty-five minutes, whilst for our entrance ticket – two minutes!
( Hampton Court. )
There were live events on whilst we were there – including a talk about Tudor cooking and dining. We didn’t take any pictures of this, as the crowd was quite big, and we were nowhere near the front. However one of the highlights of the day, for both of us, was the attempt of a young man standing near us to take a picture of the ‘Tudor steward’ by holding his camera up and hoping for the best. He brought the camera back down and went to look at the result – it was a perfect picture of the steward from waist to thigh – a really good close-up of his ornate cod-piece! The guy taking the photo just shook his head, but we had both spotted it, and had a lot of trouble not falling on the floor with laughter!
