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"Staycation" - day 5
Jun. 26th, 2010 12:39 amWe started the day at Tate Britain where we went to see "Rube Britannia" (British comic art/satire from the 18th century onwards) which was excellent.
From there we caught a boat that connects the two Tate galleries to go and see another exhibition at Tate Modern
We enjoyed this a lot too.
Then we crossed the Millennium Bridge to St. Paul's
where we had a spot of lunch
(here a greedy and cheeky pigeon is polishing off the crumbs)
The afternoon was spent wandering around the City of London looking for gardens: I printed an itinerary from the London Garden Trust website that explores 16 small gardens (it was excellent with great directions: it's easy to get lost in the City).
A couple of the gardens are quite sizeable (Finsbury Circus, The Barbican) but most are just corners hidden away between office blocks.
Some great surprises too: from gardens that contain stretches of London's Roman Wall to ones built where churches destroyed in the war used to stand.
These gardens are popular with City workers and... lovers too.
It seems indeed that love even has an official address!
We stopped for a cuppa at the Barbican
and ended up travelling home in the rush hour with a very long journey due to problems on a line.
Well I guess that I'll have to get used to that again from Monday!
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From there we caught a boat that connects the two Tate galleries to go and see another exhibition at Tate Modern
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We enjoyed this a lot too.
Then we crossed the Millennium Bridge to St. Paul's
where we had a spot of lunch
(here a greedy and cheeky pigeon is polishing off the crumbs)
The afternoon was spent wandering around the City of London looking for gardens: I printed an itinerary from the London Garden Trust website that explores 16 small gardens (it was excellent with great directions: it's easy to get lost in the City).
A couple of the gardens are quite sizeable (Finsbury Circus, The Barbican) but most are just corners hidden away between office blocks.
Some great surprises too: from gardens that contain stretches of London's Roman Wall to ones built where churches destroyed in the war used to stand.
These gardens are popular with City workers and... lovers too.
It seems indeed that love even has an official address!
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We stopped for a cuppa at the Barbican
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and ended up travelling home in the rush hour with a very long journey due to problems on a line.
Well I guess that I'll have to get used to that again from Monday!
