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Cemeteries and psychoanalysis.
Feb. 26th, 2006 03:26 pmNone of my real life friends are going to believe this, but... yesterday I managed to make it to London and back, AND navigate the Tube all by myself, and I didn't get lost a single time! *gives self corny high-five* This is amazing, considering that I can't even find my way around Greenville, where I lived for about 19 of my 25 years. The Tube is surprisingly easy to navigate. Waaaay easier than the NYC subway. I never did figure that out. Anyway...
I spent most of the day in Archway, at Highgate Cemetery. First I went to the East side. That was nice because you're allowed to wander around by yourself. (You have to take a guided tour on the West side.) First I went to the grave of Karl Marx, and wouldn't you know it, the sun was right in front of me, so I couldn't get a good picture. :( His grave is the most often decorated one there... and the most often desecrated. Ha ha. But yesterday it sported only a bouquet of tulips, no graffiti. :D Well, here are the crappy pictures I managed to take. ( Damn you, sun, why do you vex me so?> <a href= )
The east side of the cemetery is all overgrown and horror-film-esque, though not quite so beautiful as the older west side. I loved how some of the markers had trees wrapped totally around them,
( like this. )
( And some of the markers were pretty and/or just interesting: )
You have to take a guided tour around the west side. It's a Victorian-era cemetery, and until the 1970's had fallen into total ruin. Recently they've been working on clearing it out and repairing the vandalism, and now it's clear enough to tour. Charles Dickens was supposed to be buried here with his family, but Queen Victoria wanted him in Westminster, and I guess you can't argue with the Queen. Especially if you're dead. *rolls eyes at bad joke* I HIGHLY recommend going if you're ever in London. It's totally worth it.
( lj-cuts are the new black. )
I spent most of the day in Archway, at Highgate Cemetery. First I went to the East side. That was nice because you're allowed to wander around by yourself. (You have to take a guided tour on the West side.) First I went to the grave of Karl Marx, and wouldn't you know it, the sun was right in front of me, so I couldn't get a good picture. :( His grave is the most often decorated one there... and the most often desecrated. Ha ha. But yesterday it sported only a bouquet of tulips, no graffiti. :D Well, here are the crappy pictures I managed to take. ( Damn you, sun, why do you vex me so?> <a href= )
The east side of the cemetery is all overgrown and horror-film-esque, though not quite so beautiful as the older west side. I loved how some of the markers had trees wrapped totally around them,
( like this. )
( And some of the markers were pretty and/or just interesting: )
You have to take a guided tour around the west side. It's a Victorian-era cemetery, and until the 1970's had fallen into total ruin. Recently they've been working on clearing it out and repairing the vandalism, and now it's clear enough to tour. Charles Dickens was supposed to be buried here with his family, but Queen Victoria wanted him in Westminster, and I guess you can't argue with the Queen. Especially if you're dead. *rolls eyes at bad joke* I HIGHLY recommend going if you're ever in London. It's totally worth it.
( lj-cuts are the new black. )
