{"id":871,"date":"2008-11-02T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=871"},"modified":"2008-11-02T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:13:20","slug":"kew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2008\/11\/kew\/","title":{"rendered":"Kew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/attractions\/detail\/58711\">Kew Gardens<\/a> <sup><a href=\"#notek1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> with a group of friends, in particular to see the new <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.kew.org\/trees\/\">Treetop Walkway<\/a>. We picked a very cold and wet day for this trip which meant that there were fewer crowds around, but also that the conditions were less than ideal for photography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_029.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" title=\"The staircase up to the walkway\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_029-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The staircase up to the walkway\"  width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_013.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" title=\"Even difference engines have bugs - the very steampunk design ethos of the rhizotron you pass through before climbing up to the walkway\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_013-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Even difference engines have bugs - the very steampunk design ethos of the rhizotron you pass through before climbing up to the walkway\"  width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_023.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" title=\"The Palm House as seen from the walkway\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_023-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Palm House as seen from the walkway\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_037.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\" title=\"Lettice examines something prehistoric in the Evolution House\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kew_037-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lettice examines something prehistoric in the Evolution House\"  width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/very_true_thing\/sets\/72157608590772894\/\">More photos on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the Gardens shut we attempted to dry out and warm up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoriginalmaidsofhonour.co.uk\/\">Newens<\/a> where we admired photographs of John Major and a pony<sup><a href=\"#notek2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> and sampled the historic delicacy that is Maids of Honour. Apparently, the location of the gents is also historic but, on a still very wet day, less of a delicacy.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p id=\"notek1\"><b>[1]<\/b> I believe this was the first time I&#8217;ve visted Kew &#8211; I may have been as a child but one big garden looks much like another to a small boy. This means that it joins the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/attractions\/detail\/279599\">Globe Theatre<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/attractions\/detail\/58843\">Royal Albert Hall<\/a> as major London attractions that I&#8217;ve visited for the first time in 2008.<\/p>\n<p id=\"notek2\"><b>[2]<\/b> Separate photographs. I can&#8217;t imagine John Major and a pony in the same photograph. Anyone thinking of making an Edwina Currie joke: -10 points for obviousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited Kew Gardens [1] with a group of friends, in particular to see the new Treetop Walkway. We picked a very cold and wet day for this trip which meant that there were fewer crowds around, but also that the conditions were less than ideal for photography. 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