Well, that didn't happen. We missed the train to Dover and since it wouldn't be worth it time and money wise to continue with Plan A, we proceeded to Plan B. Which was nothing. All in all, it worked out lovely though. We started with a walk through the beautiful Hyde Park. We walked from Hyde Park Corner up to Speaker's Corner and Marble Arch and then cut through to the Bridge across the Serpentine.
The next few hours was spent at the gloriously wonderful Victoria and Albert Museum. I made it through half of the ground floor and definitely need to come back with my sketch book for another look at the sculptures. The V&A has a lot of artifacts and less paintings so it was wonderful to see various mediums, especially in the Asian and Indian sections. I also needed way more time in the cast room and some binoculars for Raphael's Cartoons.
We met Brian, Roni's friend and fellow AFA grad at the Hoop and Toy pub for Sunday lunch and then headed over to UCL's Wellcome Centre where we saw an incredible exhibit called Eight Rooms, Nine Lives. Part of that was the Medicine Now exhibit which was chock full of bizarre items collcted by Henry Wellcome, founder of the Wellcome Centre. When I say bizarre, this includes: very random paintings of medical procedures, the hair of George III, Japanese fertility dolls, a child's ear cover, and more. There was also a modern medicine centre about the present day's reaction to medicine, diseases, health, diet, identity, DNA, etc. All incredibly bizarre but incredibly interesting. No wonder the Wellcome Centre is called "A Free Destination for the Incurably Curious".
We popped back over to Brian's, picked up our things, stopped in for another pizza at Icco and headed to the train station. We hopped an earlier train back to Oxford for the end of an incredibly stuffed weekend.
Keep the updates coming! They're so descriptive, I almost feel like I'm there with you!! (Almost...) Great photography, Andrea!
ReplyDeletevey nice pictures regardless! =)
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