While in the Victoria & Albert museum there was a large display of ironwork.
Can you say: Zentangle patterns!? (click on any picture to enlarge it)
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Victoria & Albert Museum
Our plans for the day are to visit the Tate Britain museum, the Victoria & Albert museum and return to the Greenwich market.
We took off after our second breakfast of the day…
Our plans changed when we got to the Victoria and Albert museum – which contains a huge variety of world art. The museum covers six levels and there are 7 miles of “layouts”. We spent about 3 hours there instead of the quick “run through” we’d anticipated. Such an incredible group of things to view – and all for free!We wandered up and down stairs and saw (of all things) a Dale Chihuly chandelier over the entrance to the museum, A tiny little da Vinci book written backwards in code (that’s a secret code?), a cast of Michaelangelo’s David (17’ tall and the original weighs 6 tons), a 140’ tall column (cut in half to get it to fit) decorated with a spiral relief of 2,500 figures (if the spiral were unwound it would be the length of two football fields), bought a can of diet Coke for 1.60 (that’s 1 pound, sixty pence, or about $2.56 for 12 oz.!), Sampson Slaying the Philistine with the Jawbone of an Ass (Giambologna), micromosaics of glass and stone, etc.
There was a nice, long hall full of ironwork too. Since I’ve been playing with Zentangles, I’ve been looking for possible patterns. See my separate post about ironwork that should work for Zentangle patterns.
After all our time in the V&A museum we went nearby to the Thin House – it’s about 6’ across – and that’s the outside dimension.
Next we decided to postpone the Tate Britain museum until Sunday, and instead headed to the Science Museum. For whatever reason I was not impressed – there were so many things crammed together it was hard to see the larger objects – like airplanes. I did get to see the Babbage Difference machine #1!
And our last stop before heading back to the apartment? A larger Tesco! It’s amazing how many vegetarian choices I have here. I bought a pack of sushi and a quick meal of couscous + falafel salad!
‘Nuff for now. I’ve got a 2-litre bottle of diet coke and all is good for the day. Patrick whupped me by taking over 600 pictures with his new camera – can’t wait to see the panoramas!
