Where we do some touristing and find a very large ball of string – lake side attraction. Other good stuff too.
Sunday. A shopping and entertaining day.
QB with shoes. Not the ones acquired.
We ended up doing diner in our hotel room. Bobby and JD came to share the fare. The Camenbert we got at the fancy cheese shop was over ripe and had no crema. Tasted OK but a complaint will be lodged. “Did you offer this to us sight unseen as we are foreign? “. The Italian fontina was excellent. Marks and Sparks supplied the Mis in Bouteille Bordeaux and Bobby pronounced it good. Bob brought over a very good chorizo or imberico ham. All food consumed and enjoyed.
Monday, start of touristing.
Walked to the Starbucks Reserve place near Marble Arch out of nosiness. Not up to the standards of Redwood city Cali. Not by a long shot. Then a longer walk over to London Eye and the boat to Greenwich and the Royal Observatory.The Clipper boat takes about 30 minutes, nice ride on the Thames.
First a stop at Greenwich Market, an old one.
Managed to NOT eat the 7 inch sausages which looked so good. Waited and we
found a Vietnamese place. Roast Duck Banh Mi along with papaya salad.
Walked up to the Observatory. Great views including one from the Camera Obscura.
From my camera
From the camera obscura, with people walking.
And, of course, the obligitory Meridian line picture. Apparently required.
Tuesday, a shopping and wandering day.
One of very many in the city. Rhino time, but not rino time.
Wednesday, a tourist day.
A very large, both metaphorially and physically ball of string. Christo put up oil cans, 75000 of them in the Hyde Park Serpentine. The art piece is clearly in the water. No signage, nothing. Ends Sept 9. Got there just in time.
Off to the V&A museum. Overwhelming amount of “stuff”. We enjoyed the silver, Turner’s, Constable’s, library, and the tapastries and finally had enough.
QB in there at a table.
Amazing set of tapastries.
Doombar with Bobby. An ale named after the bar of Doom where ships were directed to get stranded and looted. Located in Cornwall. Our favorite by far.
Dinner, ragu,venison,eggplant parmesan with fine soup noodles, handmade by Bob. Quite fine noodles and filling they were. The final few steamed batches were soupy.
Well enjoyed.
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Clearly, the entire purpose of your trip was to be there to provide witness to the Christo oil cans display in the Hyde Park Serpentine. no signage necessary when there is press coverage: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/06/18/cristo-unveils-the-london-mastaba-floating-on-serpentine-lake/
It’s not a ball of string. It is a pile of oil barrels. It is not art. It is industrial pollution.
Sharon and I seem to be converging on soupy soup noodles. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to find some dumpling wrappers at an Asian market in the next few days of wandering.
A very good touristy time was had by all! The Cristo ball of string is possibly my least favorite of his installations to date. It may be more impressive in person; definitely if you had the opportunity to see it, not to be passed up.
Cheese and fruit and sausages – OH MY!
A very good touristy time was had by all! The Cristo ball of string is possibly my least favorite of his installations to date. It may be more impressive in person; definitely if you had the opportunity to see it, not to be passed up.
Cheese and fruit and sausages – OH MY!
Love Love LOVE the SHOES!!!!
Let’s talk Meridian some time
; )
Judi—the Christo May be LESS impressive in person.
Therese—the shoes may be cheaper at home. Didn’t buy them, although tempted.
So… wait… have I missed how and why BEMP changed to BEEP. Does it stand for Boogs Eat Everything Possible?
You missed it because it was was not explained. Boogs often go around saying beep to each other. I like your explanation of what it means but ours was boogs escape election politics.