{"id":234932,"date":"2025-05-10T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/london-diaries-quiet-spring-days\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:22:47","slug":"london-diaries-quiet-spring-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=234932","title":{"rendered":"London Diaries | Quiet Spring Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I made a recording of my quiet spring days in London and time alone I spent on walking around the city during April weeks. I love long solitary walks.<\/p>\n<p>I visited cafes, Foyles Bookshop, the National Gallery, St James\u2019 Park. I particularly enjoyed visiting the exhibition: A View of Mexico by the 19th century Mexican landscape painter Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Velasco at the National Gallery. Velasco had a huge array of interests including geology, the archaeology of Mexico, local flora and the advances in the industrialisation and rapid modernisation of his home country. All these interests can be seen in the detailed paintings dedicated to the beauty and richness of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will enjoy this digital diary. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quiet spring days in London | parks, bookshops, galleries | alone time\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vm0FyWTR6S8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature \u2013 if that word can be used in reference to man, who has \u2018invented\u2019 himself by saying \u2018no\u2019 to nature \u2013 consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <strong>The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-163828150-13285-681f7d5720c60\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.6#blog_id=163828150&amp;post_id=13285&amp;origin=theexiledsoul.com&amp;obj_id=163828150-13285-681f7d5720c60\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-163828150-13285-681f7d5720c60\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a recording of my quiet spring days in London and time alone I spent on walking around the city during April weeks. 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