Fixing my hair in Covent Garden, because sometimes the shot you don’t realize is happening comes out best. My lips also seem to have been lost to the cold. •• This is one of my favorite, most entertaining neighborhoods in #London. Markets, museums, bars, theaters - there’s a lot. •• The first settlement here was a 7th century Anglo-Saxon trading town called Lundenwic, meaning “London trading town” in Old English. You guys...Old English is so far removed from us it is incomprehensible. Think about that next time you complain about how the young’uns are messing up the language. It. Always. Changes. •• Covent Garden got its present name because it was a vegetable garden used by the monks of Westminster Abbey (CoNvent Garden - the “n” got lost in history’s ongoing game of telephone). •• Since then, it has gone from a quiet garden, to aristocratic residences, to a red-light district probably not unrelated to the aristocratic residences (in the late 1700s there were officially published directories of prostitutes in Covent Garden, because old-school Europeans were much less “proper” than history generally makes them out to be), to a Bohemian artists’ enclave, and finally, to the vibrant, touristy, beautifully pedestrianized, somewhat bougie but really fun neighborhood it is today. Enjoy! . . . . . #coventgarden #coventgardenmarket #london #visitlondon #visitbritain #telephonebooth #nighttime #xmas2019 #london🇬🇧