Friday, June 24, 2011

Scene 12: A Tate and A Tart

On Monday, June 20th, I did a little walk along the Thames.

I stopped first at Patisserie Lila:



(The pig has a crown.)


Where I got a fruit tart:




That I ate in Caffe Nero next to a huge replica of Sir Francis Bacon's ship:




I then walked along the river path




and passed The Globe Theater:



Which was next to the Millennium Bridge:




All of this was on my way to The Tate Modern Museum:




Which I toured with fellow hosteler Soo, who is from South Korea:




Some exhibitions were puzzling.

First the art:




And the description, which totally enlightened me:




Some made me laugh.






Some were pretty.




And this was my favorite exhibit:




People who survived the Lebanese conflict donated items that held significance for them to the exhibit with a description. 





There were also movies playing around the room with the survivors explaining their donations. 

After leaving the museum I bought some roasted nuts, which smelled delicious.




Turns out they're not so delicious. Oh, well.

As I got supremely lost trying to get home I passed St. Paul's Cathedral:




And then I made my way through the rain back to Blue Skies, where the skies were most definitely not blue.

And that was a Monday!

-B

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