Cultural weekend
Friday evening K and I went for a tour at the National Gallery in Trafalagar Square. It was very entertaining. I'm now inspired to go back and spend longer meandering through the endless galleries and enjoying to the immense variety of paintings.
Saturday morning was a Sams shift, but in the afternoon it was warm enough for new!boy and I sit out in the park and read the newspapers. If the evening we finished off our re-watch of the BBC's Pride & Prejudice.
Then on Sunday new!boy and I explored the medieval and renaissance galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum. They are gloriously laid out, a perfect blend of artistic settings and historical information. Over a thousand years of European style as you travel through the galleries. There is so much to admire and the pieces are given the space to be appreciated. There is an incredible wealth of exquisite objects, far too many to describe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/6693546/The-VandAs-Medieval-and-Renaissance-Galleries-review.html
New!boy, like me, appreciated the history of the object as much as the object, so we were devotedly reading virtually every label. However this did mean we had no hope of seeing the entire one gallery in a day. In the end we decide to live the final floor for another day and retired to the cafe for a delicious cream tea (raisin scones, strawberry jam and clotted cream the perfect cream tea).
An outrageously civilised weekend.