Alex and I just got back from our first day out in London! Last night Don and Sandra took us with their neighbors Nicki and Andy (a totally delightful stereotypically British couple) to a South Indian restaurant called Ganapati in Peckham Rye for my birthday and then we went home for Don's homemade apple pie with a candle in it for desert. The dinner was amazing - they go there weekly and have quite a rapport with the waitstaff. I had a lamb curry and Alex a spicy chicken curry with coconut rice and a naan-like fry bread and different salsas and an Indian beer called Cobra.
Today Alex and I took the overground to the Southbank and went to St. Paul's Cathedral which was having Ash Wednesday Services and the Tate Modern (lots of Jackson Pollock!) which was 2£ for the audio tour and free admission so we spent HOURS there and when we came out it was dark and everything was closed! Every piece in the museum makes you think... There are Picassos, Matisse, Riveras, Ballas and more! We took pictures in front of the Globe (closed) and got hot chocolate (it's freezing here and the wind by the Thames is extra icy) and came home. Don is at his pilates class right now but is going to pick up fish and chips for all of us on the way home. Tomorrow we are waking up early to try and go see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and then we are going to take a tour bus around and go to Harrods and eat lunch and hopefully Trafalgar Square and Westminster if there is time. Needless to say our feet are killing us!!
Today Alex and I took the overground to the Southbank and went to St. Paul's Cathedral which was having Ash Wednesday Services and the Tate Modern (lots of Jackson Pollock!) which was 2£ for the audio tour and free admission so we spent HOURS there and when we came out it was dark and everything was closed! Every piece in the museum makes you think... There are Picassos, Matisse, Riveras, Ballas and more! We took pictures in front of the Globe (closed) and got hot chocolate (it's freezing here and the wind by the Thames is extra icy) and came home. Don is at his pilates class right now but is going to pick up fish and chips for all of us on the way home. Tomorrow we are waking up early to try and go see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and then we are going to take a tour bus around and go to Harrods and eat lunch and hopefully Trafalgar Square and Westminster if there is time. Needless to say our feet are killing us!!
St. Paul's Cathedral
Jackson Pollock at the Tate Modern (oops no pictures!)
Shakespeare's (rebuilt) Globe
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