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beccaelizabethI went to London!
0830 to 2100 door to door, with between 1200 and maybe 1700 spent in art gallery.
I went to the National Gallery and saw art up to Charles I, and a couple other pictures in passing. I listened to half the guided tour before it went well out of my timeframe. It started with The Ambassadors, and I guess what we learned in class was pretty good cause I pretty much knew all that stuff.
I have postcards now of many of the good bits.
Then we left that one and went next door to the portraits and looked at Tudor and Elizabethan portraits.
I think today I saw most of the pictures we've studied in class.
They are much bigger in real than in posters.
Also the colors have to be seen to be believed.
I didn't buy any books, mostly cause the big shop was by the other entrance from where we'd stashed our coats. I did get a dozen postcards. But they're all very pretty.
I resisted getting a A0 reproduction of anything, even if it would be really cool, cause I haven't got that much wall. Also cause I was going to spend that money on fixing the laptop.
The timing of today worked pretty much as planned, except I had not factored in that leaving the art place at everyone-leaves time means all of London is also leaving, and that means they're all trying to fit in to the same train. OMG remind me to never ever do that again. *Shudders*
So I spent... 7 hours travel and 5 hours looking at things? Hmmm, better ratio than when I went to the Doctor Who exhibition.
Home now. Had a bath. No offence to any individual bit of London, but put it all together and there's many many humans and I think any given line of sight had more people in it than Dereham streets do in an hour and then they all crammed in to the six feet around the doors on the tube train. And I had to hold on to a pole that like everyone else in London had been holding on to. And... argh. So I may be having a lot of baths soon.
But I looked at many many many many many pictures today, and the plan worked, and I only had trouble breathing when there were too many people to have the actual space necessary, so I think that's a multi point win.
Now I shall eat my pasta and sauce and remind myself to actually pack something not chocolate or pancake based next time and then to sleep.
(Pictures! Cool! And really big!)
0830 to 2100 door to door, with between 1200 and maybe 1700 spent in art gallery.
I went to the National Gallery and saw art up to Charles I, and a couple other pictures in passing. I listened to half the guided tour before it went well out of my timeframe. It started with The Ambassadors, and I guess what we learned in class was pretty good cause I pretty much knew all that stuff.
I have postcards now of many of the good bits.
Then we left that one and went next door to the portraits and looked at Tudor and Elizabethan portraits.
I think today I saw most of the pictures we've studied in class.
They are much bigger in real than in posters.
Also the colors have to be seen to be believed.
I didn't buy any books, mostly cause the big shop was by the other entrance from where we'd stashed our coats. I did get a dozen postcards. But they're all very pretty.
I resisted getting a A0 reproduction of anything, even if it would be really cool, cause I haven't got that much wall. Also cause I was going to spend that money on fixing the laptop.
The timing of today worked pretty much as planned, except I had not factored in that leaving the art place at everyone-leaves time means all of London is also leaving, and that means they're all trying to fit in to the same train. OMG remind me to never ever do that again. *Shudders*
So I spent... 7 hours travel and 5 hours looking at things? Hmmm, better ratio than when I went to the Doctor Who exhibition.
Home now. Had a bath. No offence to any individual bit of London, but put it all together and there's many many humans and I think any given line of sight had more people in it than Dereham streets do in an hour and then they all crammed in to the six feet around the doors on the tube train. And I had to hold on to a pole that like everyone else in London had been holding on to. And... argh. So I may be having a lot of baths soon.
But I looked at many many many many many pictures today, and the plan worked, and I only had trouble breathing when there were too many people to have the actual space necessary, so I think that's a multi point win.
Now I shall eat my pasta and sauce and remind myself to actually pack something not chocolate or pancake based next time and then to sleep.
(Pictures! Cool! And really big!)