St. Dunstan-in-the-East

London is all about exploring. Every street, every maze, every garden, every lane, every square of it is worthy. You never know what may expect you when you turn around the corner. And sometimes google helps you to turn the right corner to find something amazing. 

A couple of years ago my cousin Nigar showed me a hidden place in The City of London that she found on the internet. For years we have shared with her our two big loves: London and New York. So exploring them over the wild web of worldwide is our hobby. So I was postponing visiting the oasis in the centre of a city where concrete jungle intertwine with historical Tower Hill, but my last visit to London made me to go there. 

Generally Tower Hill area of London is very interesting. On the one hand you see a historical castle with mesmerising view of Tower Bridge and on the other hand there is financial centre of the city with its modern architecture. And between these buildings surrounding Tower Hill, right on the north bank of Thames River you can find St. Dunstan Church in the East (don't mix it up with the one on the West, they are two different churches). Here is its brief history:

And now the Church itself... I was amazed to see this place exist in real life. It feels like you are on a set of a movie or in Wonderland itself. It's unbelievable how such a garden can be located in the middle of a megapolis. The place magically brings piece to you. These are winter views of the church that I took on December the 5th, now imagine its beauty in summer when everything is green. 

Kew Gardens

          London can be enjoyed. It should be. While walking in super-crowded places like Oxford Street, Regent Street, Picadilly Circus seeing all kind of difernet people and imagining their stories, what they are in rush for, which language they can speak or taking in peaceful atmosphere of silent parks like Kew Gardens. It's a botanic gardens with beautifully designed orangeries and different landscapes. I think the reason it was very silent when I visited because of a weekday, winter season and entry fee. But it is a perfect place to runaway from London crowd and still be in the city. If you want to spend a perfect day and hide from public you have to head there without a doubt. This whole place is like a scenery from a British period drama.

Hyde Park in September

             I found out the perfect timing to enjoy London and Hyde Park. It's June and September. June when windy and gloomy weather is leaving and letting summer to come more and more every day. You begin to feel warmth of the sun, the green of the nature. And September when summer is not gone yet and autumn is trying to enter our lives out of nowhere. This time we enjoyed gloomy but warm September day celebrating our re-union with my girls, London buddies. We love London, our friendship was born here and it belongs to this amazing place. Had dinner at Serpentino cafe near the lake, boat trip was nice and funny, couldn't manage to make a video :) this bubble thing awakened a child inside of us and waffles with nutella plus mint tea was the best ending to this day. London is life itself, and it is a huge part of mine.

                       

sunny day of mine

Eveyone knows that sunny days in London are rare, so everyone here tries to go outside whenever the sun honours this city with its presence in any way. Today was one of those days, when I left my two hard-working friends in study room (sorry, guyz) and went to beautiful St. James Park in the neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace with my friend Turan. Beautful London and its parks... where you can walk around, sit on a grass for hours chatting or just enjoying the weather in silence. 

Love is in the air <3