Posts about outings are usually unlocked - click the link to be taken to the write-up of what I've seen (usually with quite a few photos ( Read more... )

Today we went to The Science Museum in London to see their exhibition Versailles: Science and SplendourThe exhibition covered the three kings who made significant improvements to the Palace of Versailles which was originally a hunting lodge before Louis XIV transformed it into a magnificent royal palace. It became the centre of the French monarchy ( Read more... )

I enjoyed writing a question-a-day meme last year, so for those wanting a new meme for 2025 under the cut you will find January and February.  More will follow!

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Today I went to London to see The Courtauld Gallery exhibition Monet and London: Views of The Thames. The Gallery is easy for me to get to in less than an hour by train to Charing Cross and then a short blustery walk from the station to the Gallery ( Read more... )

Yesterday's walk around London celebrating the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas was an adventure. It started with delays to our train (a tree on the railway line down towards the coast) and ended with heavy rain. It was interesting but turned out to be just a walk around London with some tenuous connections to the Carol and many historical facts ( Read more... )

On Thursday I met kathyh at one of our favourite galleries to see the exhibition Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious.


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Today was cold (8C/46F) but very sunny, so it was very pleasant to walk down the hill to the station and travel into London to see the RA exhibition: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c.1504In 1504 Leonardo da Vinci (in his late 50s and a well-established and well-known artist at the time), Michelangelo (in his late 20s, and starting to get ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Barbie exhibition at The Design Museum in Kensington. It's a bit of a longer journey for me to get to as I have to get a train and then a tube, but fairly easy. As usual, both trains meshed together beautifully ( Read more... )

Today we started our walk at Southwark Tube station which is very easy for me to get to. I also managed to miss the rain which started first thing and stopped just as I walked down the road to my local station (result ( Read more... )

Today I joined my walking group to visit the Covent Garden area which began as a market held three days a week in the 1650s behind Bedford House (a mansion owned by the Duke of Bedford ( Read more... )