Ghosties and Ghoulies
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
It's funny, I've been told that Halloween is blah over here, and I suppose in a way it is - there aren't pumpkins in many windows, etc.
But you can't really fault London for being blase about Halloween, because for a city that hosts no fewer than six ghost tours a week, the past mingling with the present is just par for the course.
Walk through certain parts of Dickensian London at night, and it's like the last 300 years disappear. The oldness of this city blows my mind sometimes - not the history of London, but the presence of sites and buildings that have been around for centuries (and have likely seen at least one exorcism over the years).
Maybe it's this acknowledgement that things do go bump in the night over here that makes Halloween over here a tad more serious. I have yet to see a (usually ubiquitous) French Maid costume - instead of princesses and fairies, every girl I saw today was dressed up as a zombie, Dracula, or witch. Though thecommercialism has yet to take hold, the spirit of Halloween is very much in the air today. The photos here are ones I took at Highgate Cemetary last weekend (playing with the newly-discovered sepia setting!). Highgate's just one of many places I've fallen in love with here - Mum, you'd be proud of my penchant for graveyards!
posted by Aleksandra @ 10:33 AM
3 Comments:
HAPPY B-DAY!!!!!!
Forget Halloween, how was Guy Fawkes night?
Anonymous: Thank you, whoever you are!!
Mike: Guy Fawkes was wicked - saw the St Pauls fireworks right in front of the Tate Modern. Plus, it doubled as Matt's birthday party which I, of course, hijacked in true Aleks fashion!
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