{"id":336,"date":"2016-05-05T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/05\/a-visit-to-kew-gardens\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:25:30","slug":"a-visit-to-kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/05\/a-visit-to-kew-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit To Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kew Gardens encompasses over 300 acres and 50,000 plant species. \u00a0The gardens were created in the 18th century and over the years have collected plants internationally. \u00a0They are a resource for scholars and a means of conservation.<\/p>\n

They are also beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Kew Palace was open to tour when we were there. \u00a0It was used as a retreat by King George III and Queen Charlotte during his periods of “madness.”<\/p>\n

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The royal kitchens were also open to tour. \u00a0I like touring homes and palaces, they are usually beautiful and impressive. \u00a0However, my favorite part is usually the kitchens. \u00a0They make the house come alive. \u00a0The ornate rooms are sometimes hard to actually picture anyone living in but I can always picture the kitchens in use. \u00a0There was a very nice woman working in the kitchen building who walked around with us and gave us a mini-tour since we were the only ones in the building at the time. \u00a0A few other people came in as we were leaving.<\/p>\n

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The table in the second picture is three hundred years old and the little patch of blue you can see on the near leg is some of the original paint. \u00a0The knife marks from the kitchen staff chopping food are clearly visible. \u00a0That is the type of thing that fascinates me. \u00a0It is history coming alive.<\/p>\n

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This little guy was just wandering through the gardens. \u00a0He didn’t seem bothered at all by the people who were following him around photographing him. He walked right up to some people sitting on a bench, I think in hopes of finding some food. \u00a0He finally trotted off, looking convinced that he owned the gardens and the rest of us were interlopers.<\/p>\n

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Kew Gardens was the perfect day out. \u00a0It was beautiful, peaceful, and a bit of a respite from the London crowds. \u00a0Plus, it has cafes, in one of which I had a very nice piece of coffee-walnut cake. \u00a0What more can you ask for out of a day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kew Gardens encompasses over 300 acres and 50,000 plant species. \u00a0The gardens were created in the 18th century and over the years have collected plants internationally. \u00a0They are a resource for scholars and a means of conservation. They are also beautiful. Kew Palace was open to tour when we were there. \u00a0It was used as a retreat by King George III and Queen Charlotte during his periods of “madness.” The royal kitchens were also open to tour. \u00a0I like touring homes and palaces, they are usually beautiful and impressive. \u00a0However, my favorite part is usually the kitchens. \u00a0They make the house come alive. \u00a0The ornate rooms are sometimes hard to actually picture anyone living in but I can always picture the kitchens in use. \u00a0There was a very nice woman working in the kitchen building who walked around with us and gave us a mini-tour since we were the only ones in the building at the time. \u00a0A few other people came in as we were leaving. The table in the second picture is three hundred years old and the little patch of blue you can see on the near leg is some of the original paint. \u00a0The knife marks from the kitchen staff chopping food are clearly visible. \u00a0That is the type of thing that fascinates me. \u00a0It is history coming alive. This little guy was just wandering through the gardens. \u00a0He didn’t seem bothered at all by the people who were following him around photographing him. He walked right up to some people sitting on a bench, I think in hopes of finding some food. \u00a0He finally trotted off, looking convinced that he owned the gardens and the rest of us were interlopers. Kew Gardens was the perfect day out. \u00a0It was beautiful, peaceful, and a bit of a respite from the London crowds. \u00a0Plus, it has cafes, in one of which I had a very nice piece of coffee-walnut cake. \u00a0What more can you ask for out of a day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}