Photo Walk Extraordinaire!

It's been a busy couple of days. I have been up in London at the Blogtacular Conference being inspired and having fun. The main conference was on Saturday, but on Friday there was the option to go on a photo walk so I signed up. Imagine about 25 colourfully dressed women armed with phones and cameras charging though the streets of Chelsea and you'll get the idea!

The first place we stopped was a cake shop called Peggy Porschen - I really have to go back and try the delicious looking cakes!

Then we wandered on, following our leader, photographing anything and everything of interest!

It was a  great afternoon, though I have to say at the end of a couple of hours pounding the pavements I was ready to go back to the hotel and have a rest!

If you would like to see more on the photowalk and Blogtacular, head on over to my other site ChequerCreative where I will be posting in a few days time. In the meantime have a great week.

Photo Heart Connection - May

Joining in with Kat Sloma's Photo Heart Connection - do go and check out the others over on her website 

My husband is half Norwegian and has many relations living in Norway. One of these, his cousin Helga, was over for a conference and asked if she could visit us for the weekend. Of course we were delighted to see her, but unfortunately the weekend she was coming coincided with  a two day photography course in London that Brian had given me for my birthday. 

On the Saturday I headed off to London early, leaving the family to have a celebratory breakfast as  it was 17th May , Norwegian National Day, which is a very big deal in Norway but not usually much celebrated in  England. Busy on the course I didn't think much more about it until the afternoon when we had to go out and shoot in the streets around the studio where the training was, imagine my surprise and delight when I found this.

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A Norwegian deli with  these wonderful celebration cakes complete with flag! it really connected me to the celebrations happening and home in my absence and with friends and family in Norway -  made my day!