Not many photos today - more on our return to Sydney.
It was warm and sunny in London today. Our
first destination was the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, which we
reached by walking through Kensington Gardens. Kensignton Palace there (large
but unassuming building) was Princess Diana’s home after the split. At the
bottom end of that was the most impressive Albert Memorial, which is in turn
opposite the Royal Albert Hall, the home of the Proms concerts.
There are a
number of attractive buildings in the vicinity.
The V&A was a big surprise to me (the
advantage of not knowing anything ahead of time – I know, poor form): it had an
amazingly extensive display of decorative art works. The sculptures were mostly
from recent ages, but very interesting.
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| Gentlemen: aim for the fly |
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| the three graces |
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| this is marble!!! |
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Next it was on to the Natural History
Museum across the road. In the entrance hall there is a diplodocus skeleton in
the main entrance area and a statue of Charles Darwin. The diplodocus was a
replica and its leg bnes were actually those of an iguanadon (I think)
according to one of the attendants: “everything under glass is generally
genuine”. We mainly explored the dinosaur eller in Roland’s honour: he was
fascinated by dinosaurs as a small boy and knew the names of many of them.
We went home for a rest before going out to
meet the son of a Sydney friend and his partner. We spent a very pleasant
hour-and-a-half or so in a pub behind the London Eye.
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