A Long Walk

Started at the National Gallery and viewed some great, and many not so great, classic paintings. Forgive the spellings: Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cezzane, Van Gogh, Van Dick, Bernini, Monet (not.  To be confused with that hack Manet) and many more. Perhaps the most interesting was an exhibit by Michael Landy, who created a 3D interpretation (read moving sculptures) inspired by some of the paintings of saints. Seriously though, look up www.nationalgallery.org.uk for info as I can not describe his exhibit in writing and do it justice. Stunning if I had one word. No pictures of course, it is an art gallery.

The walk was from The Tower of London up the river to London Bridge (which is really lame and the original one is in Arizona) to what I call the Harry Potter Bridge front he sixth movie, aka Millennium Bridge or so I am told. There we visited the Globe Theater (Shakespeare) and St. Paul's Cathedral, which is huge and impressive. Not sure how far the walk was, but I finally got a blister on my foot.

Afterward we went and hung out in Hyde Park. Tried to go on the lake but OMG expensive, so we sat in the vine tunnels which is beautiful.

To end the night Heather demanded that we go to Kings Cross Station to try and find Platform 9 3/4. They have turned this area into a real profit for the station. It has a store, photo ops and more to take up you time. Pretty neat actually, as they have all the wands, sweaters, ties and scarves for all four houses, and more.