On Monday, after class Eleanor and I met Kate at the V&A. The V&A has a lot of artifacts and it is more like the British Museum than the National Gallery. We saw some Raphaels, a fashion exhibit, and some Asian artifacts. Tuesday, after class, I went to Sir John Soane's museum. It is essentially his house with lots of artifacts in it including a sarcophagus! The most unique room was full of art and the walls could move and then reveal other art. They had lots of art by William Hogarth and they were the colored paintings of
A Rake's Project and
The Election. We had studied
A Rake's Project in class so it was cool to see them in person (although they were a mirror image of the prints we had studied so they looked strange to me at first. In the evening, Kate and I went to Storm nightclub and saw a comedy show. I got the tickets for free through a website called SeeFilmsFirst so it was a good excuse to go. It consisted of three comedians and so they each did a 30 minute show. It was really fun although a few of the jokes were lost on me since I am not British.
Today, we went to tea in the crypt and ended up staying there for almost two hours! Then, we went to Westminster Abbey. It is a pretty church but more significantly, there are graves of lots of famous people including Kings and Queens, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, and Oliver Cromwell was buried here for two years. We also saw the coronation chair which I heard about while in Scotland. .
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| Tea and Apple Crumble |
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| Horse Guard |
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| Westminster at night |
