MISCELLANEOUS SNAPS FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TOUR

By Guest Blogger Denise Costello


When I was traveling recently on The Duke of Wellington Tour, I took approximately 1600 pictures. What to do with all of those pictures? Many of my favorites I have used in two previously posts on my own blog, M. Denise Costello. As a guest on Number One London, I decided to share some of my favorite art and flower pictures from the tour. Enjoy! 
I was on my own in London for a couple of days and did lots of walking and sightseeing, and I snapped many flowers and much art on the tour:
[image error]  --South Kensington color pop
[image error]  --from a park behind the London Eye
[image error]  --this park was small but beautiful
[image error]  --a green building for sure
[image error]  --tree in Green Park
[image error]  --rose from the Hyde Park rose garden
[image error]  --beautiful purples from Hyde Park
[image error]  --whimsical art near Hyde Park
[image error]  --wall I passed by (later I found that the grounds of Buckingham Palaceare behind this wall)
[image error]  --sculpture in a small park near Victoria Station
[image error] --horses atop the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
[image error] --on the acres and acres of land behind Buckingham Palace
After leaving London, the tour headed to Kent and the towns of Deal and Dover. Near Deal is Walmer Castle, where the Duke of Wellington resided as a perk of his being appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports by Queen Victoria. The Duke died at Walmer Castle. 
[image error]  --a corner wall and chair with flowers at Walmer Castle
[image error]  --some outside steps with wildflowers growing in the crevices
[image error]  --Deal was the cutest town on the channel! 
[image error]  --from the pier in Deal
[image error]  --We visited Dover Castle because it was nearby, even though it was not especially related to the Duke of Wellington.
[image error] --the White Cliffs of Dover and the castle from the harbor
Next we headed to Brighton to see the restoration of a Regency apartment and to visit Brighton Pavilion:
[image error]  --in the gardens near Brighton Pavilion
[image error]  --different hibiscus
[image error]  --greenery near the Pavilion
[image error] --a view of the Pavilion
[image error] --flowers near the Brunswick apartments(we toured a restoration in progress of one of the apartments)
The tour headed to Reading after leaving Brighton, where we visited Stratfield Saye, the Duke of Wellington's country estate. Members of the Duke's family still reside at Stratfield Saye:
[image error]  --at a small church on the grounds was an old graveyard
[image error]  --statue in from of the beautiful house
[image error]  --one of the friends I made on the trip
[image error]  --jasmine tree/bush on the Stratfield Saye grounds
[image error]  --there was a walled garden at Stratfield Saye
[image error] --climbing roses in the walled garden
We had also visited Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey) and later we visited Windsor and Windsor Castle. I am saving some pics from those adventures for more of my own posts. However, I am exiting this guest post with several pics of the red poppy exhibition that commemorates World War I at the Tower of London:
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