Kew gardens & the Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway

I finaly manage to drag my behind out to Kew gardens, I was a bit concerned that I might have left it a bit late for the year, considering that the season has more or less changed over to winter now, but it was still able to keep interest for a day. I really do prefer living in the big city compared to the countryside but I miss nature sometimes so this is a good substitute.

I feel almost kinda weirdly jelous of the huge, victorian greenhouses with their caged rainforests. I want one of those!

 My bangs have grown too long again, I can't make up my mind how to wear my hair so for now I'll just braid it out of my way...

I had been looking forward to the treetop walkway since forever.

I'm definetley going to have to give it a re-visit in spring to see it clad in greenery.

There's something surreal and slightly magical about stroling around in the canopy compleatley unbothered.

New experiences

Since getting here I've;

~ Tried sausage roll, marmite and ginger nuts

~ Spotted Boris Johnson

~ Started running in Hyde park in the morning

~ Found a Swedish pub
~ Opened a bank account at a Baker street office

~ Spent a small fortune at Vivienne Westwood

Lolitaloppis 2011 video footage

First in line this year! Anastasia from Lund traveled to Stockholm with her boyfriend for the weekend. They had been waiting in line since 06:50 that morning and we didn't open untill 12:00! She says she's really cold but it looking forward to meeting some nice peopel and buying some yellow socks. Her boyfriend says he wasn't super happy with the early start but he wants to support his girlfriend, so sweet!

Amazing line-up just as previous year!


Counting down to opening time!

Living in a Box

So much stuff in such a mess, too many boxes and too many flat God damned IKEA packages! I can't wait untill everything is in order again.

By the sea...

Going to Odaiba tomorrow and I'll be back on Sunday again, please join me in keep my fingers crossed for beautiful weather.

I want to watch the Yakatabune boats light up the riversurface at nighttime from the ferris wheel.

By the seaside,
Hoo, hoo!
By the beautiful sea!

A day at Tokyo Disneyland resort

I finaly went to Disneyland yesterday with Tomo. Before I came to Japan I thought I'd be going there the first week or so but that was obviously not the case. Anyways, I think it was a long time since I had so much fun, I rode every single ride except Splash mountain and that was closed. Alice's mad teaparty teacups where hands down the worst (I thought my head was going to fall off) and grand canyon rollercoaster was the best even though the line for it was probably the longest. I also ate popcorn again for the first time in about seven months, it was like little pieces of heaven!

When the sun went down efter about ten houers of fun and play, it got a little bit chilly so I stuck my hands in a pair of Minni Mouse gloves and waited for the fireworks to start as a bright full moon rose over the beautifuly lit castle. So romantic.

Momiji ~ The red leaves of autumn

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Passat på att turista lite i helgen, igår besökte vi templet i Asakusa och idag har vi spenderat hela dagen med att vandra runt det kejserliga palatset med trädgårdar och allt vad det innebär. Jag är glad att det ändå finns natur här, jag trodde jag skulle behöva vara omgiven av betong i en evighet, som sant naturbarn hade det blivigt svårt för mig. Det finns gott om enorma spindelnät med proportionerliga spindlar i den kejserliga parken, jag vill tillbaka och fota dem men jag tror jag skulle dö om jag fick en av dem på mig eller gick in i en av deras nät...

Translation:
Doing a bit of light touristing this weekend, yesterday we wisited the temple in Asakusa and today has been spent walking around the imperial palace and it's gardens. I'm happy to see that there is green in Tokyo, I feared a concrete existance and since I am a nature child it would have been a hard six months for me. There are plenty of enormous spiderwebs with equaly enourmous spiders in them in the royal palace park, I would like to go back and take a picture of them but if I walk into one of their webs by mistake I think I might just die...

Sammanfattningsvis

Tisdag & Onsdag: Jag var där med klassen och kände mig som en riktig kulturkofta, sprang från utställning till utställning, bland annat slututtällningen på konstfack. Jag kännde mig föga imponerad men det fanns en vackert tecknad bildserie till en lite mer makaber version av tummelisa som jag gillade. Prerafaeliterna på nationalmuseumet var också fantastiska. Annars var det mycket foto, mycket modernt, inte så jag.
Med det ur vägen kontaktade jag Maria för en fika och lite skvaller på vetekatten innan Ylva och Sara kom.

Torsdag: Maria blev olyckligt sjuk så tre musketörer begav sig ut på egen hand, på jakt efter skorosetter och franslim. Fram mot eftermiddagen anslöt sig även Sara och Maja. Fredag: Allmänt turistande från min och Saras sida, vi gjorde Stockholm och blev förälskade i nått litet torg i gamla stan, suktade efter pampiga droskor på livrustkammaren och tittade på djur, djur och åter djur på aquaria och skansen. Maja kom med oss för den sista aktiviteten, sedan åt vi pizza som var alldeles för god. Jag vill ha en till nu!Lördag: Forum meet! Gud vad jag var opepp till att börja med, vi fick flera återbud och när vi först klev upp ur sängen ösregnade det. Efter många om och men kom vi iväg med en regnrock att sitta på och med 7eleven kaffe i handen. Humöret svängde snart när vi såg att det trotts allt hade kommit en hel hord av fabulösa damer, vädret till trotts och med den goda inställningen kom också solen. Allting gick gick som på räls.

Translation:
Just got back from a fabulous weekend in Stockholm with my friends, we live so far away from eachother so I'm always so happy to be able to see them. We went to the Zoo, did some shopping and hanged out at ouer favourite café. We also had ouer big gothloli meetup aswell wich was so much fun, the weather was not on ouer side but with good company you can endure anything.

Sunday, Kagrra day!

Concert day! I was the only one in ouer house who wore lolita that day so naturaly I finished last *_*, We bought some fabric to make black and white hankies to dance with and then we mostly qued for the rest of the day. It was rainy and there where rats there but we still managed to entertain ouerselfs.A dangerosly hot Ylva and me.I found a fellow lolita! Bella and me, shilded from rain and tourist cameras by my Swimmer umbrella.
Stock photo since as usual no cameras where allowed (they where all much better looking irl). The concert was so awsome! They are just great live and I'm glad I went even though I got kind of squashed in the rather wild crowd. I got a signed copy of Core with me as a memory that has been spinning in my CD player ever since.
After the concert we ran into Peter Siepen and got a picture with him, Tokis was so happy!

Saturday

After a late arival and a friday night of Kikujiros Summer with Sara, Joakim, Tokis and Ylva, we met up with bella and Sara & Maja Me, Sara and Bella. The tourists where rather rude and kept snaping ouer picture without permission, it got quite annoying.
Me and Ylva on the subway to the museum of natural history where we spent most of the day. We later headed out to Panda Wok for dinner, I ordered dumplings with high hopes but they turned out to be quite disgusting. I think this was some sort of irony or revenge of faith since I earlier that day got the best cake at the café we stoped by.