When it’s raining it’s best to stay inside, fortunately they are lots of inside activities in London, museums being one of them. Garry, being on record as saying museums are a good way to waste half a day, the beer museum at Carlsberg being a notable exception, will no doubt opt for a more personally rewarding activity, brewery tour perhaps or maybe a cup of coffee and an Eccles Cake?
The Victoria and Albert Museum claims to be the world’s leading museum of art and design ….. who am I to argue. What I can say is, it’s the best I have seen. Everything from a home made toaster to fine jewellery and everything in between, all housed in an outstanding building which is itself a work of art. Accessed via the underground you don’t even get your feet wet. The only problem is that we are not here for a month, which is my estimated time requirement to fully comprehend the contents of this outstanding treasury of artefacts. “Inspiration and Knowledge”.
The silver.
The courtyard.
The jewelery.
The art library.
Valentino 2014.
From the Jewellery department..
Following the museum we managed a PM tour of some other essential London sites before catching the underground back to Earls Court. All up about fourteen kilometres of walking three of which were in the V. A. Museum.
The new view from Tower Bridge.
Camera shy horse.
Trafalgar.
Whitehall Gardens.
Big Ben..Almost!
Tower Bridge.
Boudica, tickets sold her!
Unveiled by Liz 2005.
Tomorrow Highgate Cemetery to commune with the not so alive.
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