gettin' a bit of culture in

up at out of ealing early today – appointments to keep. lucky that i looked at my printout as i was suppose to be at the british museum at 10am not 10.30 like i thought. oops!

so first the tube into holborn station before a walk through a lovely part of london – bloomsbury. that’s where the writers group got it’s name from, virginia woolf was a member, bit more trivia for you. there’s a small outside mall type street called sicilian avenue – it has roman columns at each end of the block.



from here i walked through the beautiful bloomsbury square to the british museum.





i had found out that the terracotta warrior exhibition was showing so had organised a ticket for myself a few months back. lucky i did as there was a very long line and only certain times later in the day available. i wasn’t able to take any photos, so here’s the next best thing.


hey, i had to be sneaky about that photo as well. :) but the exhibition was pretty impressive – though i would like to see it in it’s own environment – then i’m sure i’d be blown away. just the scale of it all. amazing.

i wandered about the museum a bit – popping my head into the other areas – but i had seen most of it before. one thing i couldn’t resist was returning to the egyptian displays. i found the rosetta stone under glass this time though. when i get my things out of storage i’ll hunt down the photos i took in ’90 (oh, another lifetime ago now). i could actually reach out and touch the stone then.


after the museum i meandered up through russell square – saw some guy practicing his “cocktail” moves with shaker and bottles.




by this time i was getting a bit peckish so decided to move to the other side of the thames to eat because my next appointment was in southwark. it took me some time to get there though… i was waylaid at leicester square.



ended up walking through soho and the theatre district – a great place. all kinds of cool things to see. charing cross road and the plethora of book stores, so many shows to see…





bought a pastry to keep me moving and moving i did.







turned a corner and this building caught my eye.


then suddenly i was in piccadilly circus. it’s smaller than i remembered it. ha!!




crossed the thames and over to the globe theatre. had a ticket to see the merchant of venice. the theatre was built to the same measurements of the original globe, but i tell you they should’ve taken into consideration that our height and girth have changed since then, not to mention our butts. my knees were poking into the back of the guy in front of me. all in all it was a fantastic performance and i loved the interaction of the players with the audience at certain times. a lot of fun was had. (couldn't take pictures during the performance - sorry - had to be there).







the big chimney stack thing is the tate modern. i'll be heading there in the next day or so.