Salisbury

I went to the Salisbury Cathedral with my husband's and my friend, she who is a visitor from Japan , and my husband last February. That It was a huge and beautiful 13th century Cathedral. 

The In the cathedral , has there is a tower. It was which is 123 m. meters high.

There was a tower tour but we couldn't take it because the tour time was finished. over.

The celling was so high and it has beams curving an amazing from one side to the other, making an amazing form. I like the soft  pink and peach colors of the celling.

There were many big stained glasses.
I thought the cathedral had several different impression at each part.
But there were no partitions or walls between each part.
Maybe each stained glasses make each part different impression.
There were various stained glasses giving different moods and impressions.
Though the cathedral had no partitions, I felt like going to different rooms at that time.

According to the pamphlet, the The cloisters is are the largest of any cathedral in Britain.

It was a fine day!!! We took a walk a in the town near the cathedral.

My home town , Kyoto , has many traditional temples. But but I was not so interesting interested in them.

It was the nomal things that these were in my town , I through beside the temple everyday for me.

I was so used to/accustomed seeing those temples in my town since I passed by them everyday on my way to school.

If I live in this town for a long time, maybe I will be feel the same as I lived in Japan.

The distinction of the among architectures or and cultures makes gives me different a unique feeling. 

He is ... a carpenter?

When we moved in this flat, we should had to assemble of some furnitures.

This is my husband's magic furniture assemble tool for assemble♪

At first, he opened a big box and read an the instruction for some little time.
And then, let's start to assemble he started assembling !!!

I was just watching watched during he assembled them.him assemble it.

No no, I was a camera operator !

Completion♪It is a PC desk for PC.

There are many useful trays compartments. It is convenient♪

Next one is a white cabinet.

Before he assemble them did the others, he assembled a the chair for the PC.

We are using have two same white cabinets . , One of them is one in the living room. The and the other one is in the kitchen like this. It is nice size and color. It's has a nice shade and good size.

This is ... guess what?

The answer is ...  a sofa bed　!

It is not common to assemble some furnitures in Japan. Normally ,  we can could buy them assembled accomplished them or the staff of the furniture store assemble them have the someone from the furniture store do it in our house. So this is the my first experience for me. ( oh, not for me. for my husband.)

But Yet he could do was able to finish everything in less time quickly. He is an awesome carpenter. 

We saw a family that who they bought a toilet in the do-it-yourself store Do-it-Yourself Store.

Can they fit in that in their bathroom by themselves ??? 

Harry Potter's location (last September 3,2010 )

I forgot to post these pictures. These are taken in Lacock Abbey, one of the Harry Potter's location.

We visited there in a weekday of the last September. That is why there were not another no other people in there.

The abbey is located in a small idyllic town.   

The weather was excellent, not too hot, not too cold, comfortable wind and the sky was blue sky. 

How do you feel this shape of the What is your first impression when you see this building? It looks like a small castle, doesn't isn't it?

I was wondering why the abbey doesn't have the cross crucifix.

I should ask someone about that.

I asked a tutor about that. She said it is not church. The church has the crucifix.

I see.

The building was made/built from stones and has some nice shape windows.

Did you remember this cloisiter corridor?
Maybe I watched it in the Harry Potter the movie♪

Inside the cloister corridor, there are some beautiful caved pillars and ceiling.

This is the proof that the abbey was one of the location of the Harry Potter movie.

I am not sure what number of the Harry Potter movie series I have watched this pot.
But I remember Harry was inside the pot.  but...why did was he inside the pot...? I can't remember.

And the garden location of the movie is also inside the building. located place.
But it has not a fountain.

I watched the garden like this picture in the movie.
This pictures shows what I saw in the garden when I watched the movie. It has a fountain.

There were a lots of sheeps in the expansive field around the abbey.  

We are looking forward to watch the last series Harry Potter movie !!!

Year-crossing noodles 2010-2011

This is our year-crossing noodle that was made by my husband.

He is really a good cook♪The taste of it made me brought back to the memory of the last our year end in Japan.

Do you know the derivation of the year-crossing noodle?

People started to eat it at the end last day of the year in the past that because they wanted to live a long frugal healthy life.

Oooops!!!

... I should do the photo to be sidling. have post this picture horizontally. 

Going back to UK from Node Station (last December 30, 2010)

The last day of our travel, we spent our a relax time relaxing inside our Hotel until noon.

We move to the Node station in Paris by train after we checked out the Hotel.

And then we ate a our lunch near the station.

The Node station has beautiful modern glass walls.

There are many trains inside the station. Maybe it makes a excites train freaks excite!!!

There are two gates, for one to outbound from France and the other one to get into UK in the station.

I felt many things in Paris. I like it there. 

But it was only a part of France. 

So Hopefully, I want to go the country side of France if I have an opportunity I want to go to the other parts of France and see the other side of France.

Palace of Versailles (last December 29, 2010)

We decided to go to the Palace of Versailles in day the fourth day of our travel.

We found an information about the entrance ticket to enter the Palace on a Japanese guide book.

 that It was said says there we can get discounts tickets in the station both for riding train and entering the Palace.

So we were looking looked for a wicket in a station near our hotel. But the wicket was closed...

Involuntarily No choice, we bought our train tickets by/in a ticket-vending machine.

The train ran parallel to the Seine river.

It took about 30 minutes to get to the Palace of Versailles.

The extensive land was appeared when we turned a cornner and then we proceed to going there. 

There are Outside the palace everything is nomal , life, normal roads and many cars outside of the Palace. around.

The building was huge and greatly flamboyant. I can't believe that Louis ⅩⅣ had lived in there.
I should take a bicycle inside the building if I will live there.

There were many art object collections in there.

I was surprised that there are not corridors in the middle of the building.

Many rooms were connected by doors. And an audio guidance said each rooms has different roles.

How could they use these rooms at the same time? There is no privacy in that palace.

Usually they use this place just for corridor.
Sometimes it was changed to a party room.  How gorgeous it was !

I had a trouble after we left the main building and had a lunch.

I had lost two tickets(for me and my husband) to enter the other part of the building. That was "Domain de Marie Antoinette"... I was very sorry to my husband.. We spent a time outside to wait for our friends. 

But I loved that the view.

We could go anywhere in the garden.

Can you see the main building in the center of this picture?
There is a big cross shaped pond at in the front of the building.

And I turned around ... I couldn't see the end of the pond. 

The palace garden had has a fantastic view ♪

Some birds were relaxing there. Happy looking birds.

How can we did they do like this?  Everywhere had a the trees form a very straight line by trees.

Can you see some upside down ice cream cones behind us?

The travel was like a quest.  Everyone's shoes got wet due to the snow. 

But I was comfortable because my shoes was are waterproof. that It was a birthday present from my husband in my last birthday(o^^o).