A Lady in London

Just as I really started to complain about the weather in London things warmed up significantly. This weekend temperatures have been in the high 70′s and I could not be in a better mood.

In light of the amazing weather, I planned a trip to Sissinghurst Castle today with my boyfriend and some friends. I had heard about Sissinghurst’s beautiful spring gardens, and figured today would be a great day to walk around outside in the country.

We took a train to Staplehurst station in Kent, where we arrived famished because we had all skipped breakfast. To sate our hunger we ate a wholesome meal of cheeseburgers and hot dogs at the flea market in the station parking lot while we waited for the bus to the castle gardens.

We arrived at Sissinghurst Castle around 11am, just as the weather was really starting to warm up. We spent the next few hours wandering leisurely through the gardens, which were all designed to look like rooms of a house. Each one had its own color scheme and theme, and the result was beautiful.

When we had seen the whole of the gardens we walked around some trails in the woods, admiring the tiny purple flowers that blanketed the entire forest floor. From there we meandered down to the town of Sissinghurst and had a beer at a local pub called The Bull Inn, where I took a picture of the sign out front.

Speaking of pictures, I got an email on Friday from a designer at a company in New York that saw my Dubai photos on Flickr. She wants to pay me (pay me!) for the use of my photos in an online promotion and print advertorial that her company is doing on the UAE. It turns out that the nice weather and the trip to Sissinghurst Castle weren’t the only thing to lift my mood recently!