Chapter 443: Dark Age
Going for an early morning run in Hyde Park is my favourite moment in London. Hyde Park is adjacent to the downtown area to the north and south, but the park is unusually quiet, with giant trees, boundless greenery, and wild birds in the bushes making crisp and pleasant chirps, quietly feeling the most wonderful combination of sports and travel.
It is a unique experience to see an old man reading a newspaper quietly on a bench on the jogging road, a couple with a dog doing yoga on the lawn, a little boy feeding the swans by the blue lake, and a young man with glasses reading a book with his back against a big tree.
Just across the street from Hyde Park, HIDE is a luxury restaurant hidden away in the city, earning a Michelin star within 5 months of opening. A log spiral staircase divides HIDE into three sections, and the above-ground dining area is beautiful, with a view of the tree-lined Hyde Park window and no noise from downtown traffic.
The basement is a bar and private rooms, which are also full of design, such as this "library cabinet" themed private room, the entire vaulted ceiling is full of flying pages, which is completely a Harry Potter-style space magic.
Of course, you can't miss Van Gogh and England, the Tate's largest Van Gogh exhibition in the UK in 10 years, 72 years after it last held an exhibition at Van Gogh.
Every artist is a madman, perhaps more than 100 years later, we still can't understand Van Gogh's inner world, but we can experience his fiery and short life through one work after another.
Engels once said: the museum is the eye of the city. Through these eyes, we can transcend the long river of history, find the past that has passed, and reawaken the beauty of sleep.
Knightsbridge is a street west of central London that runs west along the south side of Hyde Park to Brompton Road, and when referring to the London borough of Knightsbridge, it usually refers to the area around Knightsbridge Underground station.
This area is one of London's most prosperous and trendy business districts, with the famous Harrods and Chafinigh, gorgeous high-end restaurants and fashion stores, and high-end residential areas all around. Walking around Knightsbridge, admire the rows of elegant sky-sweeping villas and enjoy the unique atmosphere of London, as if you are in a movie set
Many areas of the department store are designed with high ceilings, and there is even an atrium full of ornate decorations at the corner of the escalator. Even the ceiling is ingenious! The area in the photo is an Egyptian-style area, with giant pharaoh statues and three-dimensional carvings, while the ceiling of the G-wing food store is filled with intricate reliefs and many ostentatious multi-tiered crystal chandeliers, giving the impression of being in a 19th-century English palace.
Buy a specialty snack in which a soft-boiled egg dipped in flour is wrapped in minced meat, then wrapped in egg wash and fried in breadcrumbs until golden brown, usually eaten with salads, sauces or fries. Personally, I would like soft-boiled eggs with sauce, so I want to try them. The taste of this Scotchtails at Borough Market is that many people say they have eaten very authentic Scottish eggs.
When it comes to the history of Britain, we have to say that the dark Middle Ages, in many medieval films, I have seen about that era of bloody and violent killings, such as the Tudor dynasty, the Viking Age, the Chronicles of Narnia, etc. In England, you have to go back to the atmosphere of the Middle Ages to feel the origin of Britain.
The Middle Ages lasted from 476 to 1640 AD, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the bourgeois revolution in England. In the Middle Ages, the social productive forces were backward, the people were not able to make a living, Catholicism was extremely imprisoned in the people's minds, the people's lives were very miserable, and the economy was stagnant, so the 900 years of the Middle Ages were generally called the Dark Ages in Europe and the United States.
England during this period was very dark, bloody and chaotic, and the most representative king of England in this period was Henry VIII of the Tudor dynasty, who had 6 queens in his life, cut off the heads of 3 of them, broke away from the rule of Catholicism, and established a violent king of Protestantism for a woman, and his daughter was the most solid ruler of the Tudor dynasty.
The guillotine guillotine of the Tower of London was dedicated to the imprisonment of noble prisoners, the most famous of whom was Henry VIII's second wife, the famous Anne Boleyn, who was executed on 19 May 1536 on charges of treason, and beheaded her by sword rather than axe in accordance with her wishes.
The most valuable collection is the Queen's Jewel Crown, and when there are many people, the queue will line up in the garden, and everyone must line up to see it. I waited in line for more than half an hour to get in, and I must not give up, because the jewels in here are treasures that many thieves have been peeking at for a long time.
Treasures include royal scepters, horns, and edges. A jeweled sword presented to the monarch by the archbishop, the oldest of the royal treasures, the medieval gold oil bottle and spoon used by the monarch to anoint the holy oil, the coronation robe, the crown and scepter with the world's largest diamond, the Star of Africa, and the ball with a cross on the top, among which there is a golden crown made by Edward Charles II, which is still used in the commission ceremony, and the royal crown made for Queen Victoria, covered with precious stones, worn at parliaments and other occasions.