Tate Modern London

Busy day...

rode the tube
tower of london
oldest church
fire monument
thames walkway
millenium bridge
tate modern
globe theatre
st paul's cathedral

supper at old spaghetti house

We arrived at 6 a.m. this morning. Laurie and I got around 3 hours sleep in the past few days. I wanna just take a shower and head to bed. But we ARE here an I have the nods between words...so a pic or two, shower, and bed. More when i'm not jet lagged and have slept …

Mais um dia com chuva pela manhã, mas logo passou. No horário do almoço fui almoçar com Tony em um Restaurante Italiano perto da escola.
Depois da aula partimos para outra caminhada: London Bridge Tour.
Saímos do Executive Centre ás 16:30 e caminhamos pela Kingsway até Lincoln's Inn Fields, uma a´rea com uma grande praça pública e muitos …

O planejamento era o seguinte: acabando a aula, sair do curso em direção a Covent Garden e passear pelo mercado e lojas e depois seguir para o London Eye e fazer a volta na roda gigante. Depois partir para visitar o Tate Modern, que ás sextas fecha mais tarde, ás 21:00.
A primeira parte foi bem sucedida. Saindo da International House, caminhei …

Upon arrival at the airport we meet our tour director Aonghus. My first thought about him is "I like him," and we embarked on the bus to our hotel. From the hotel we take the tube to Leicester Square and Covent Garden. I was shocked at the orderliness of the tube stations and the train itself. This was my first day out of the United States and in …

Lundi. 13h30. Porte Maillot.

Van blanche, Rent-a-Car. Anonyme. Notre chauffeur se nomme Mouahmed. Hmm.

Sans dire que les circonstances douteuses de notre covoiturage de Paris à Londres nous inquiétaient, nous nagions tout de même dans un certain mystère qui rendait notre trajet moins banal qu'une escapade Québec-Montréal avec …

My feet were BLACK from yesterday's adventures in sandals, so today I knew better and wore the running shoes I so cleverly remembered to bring. No towel, Birkenstocks, watch, journal, or phone charger... but I did remember the running shoes. (Don't worry, I bought another phone charger here).

Anyway, we started out our adventure on Monday …

Took a tour of The Globe Theater - a reproduction of Shakespeare's orignal theater. Also walked through Tate Modern Musuem - saw a few Picaso paintings and some great installations. Saw the Rossetta Stone at the British Museum and the Magna Carta at the British Library …

Greetings,

quick update cause I am a tad tired.
Decided to head off and see Peta for the weekend. Train trip was such a drag on the way there. Arrived late and went to bed after chatting for an hour or two too Pete. Woke up around 10am and decided pretty quickly to head to London.
We didn't arrive at London until about 1pm due to …

Awfully sorry for this such late entry. Dad was onto me about a new blog entry and that was when I realised how long ago my last proper entry was!! I promise you now this will be a very long entry.

Where shall I even begin. I will begin with today for one. Went to Stover again. Haven't set a pin for this on the map but I have been there …

... magic when the hot water was added to my glass. We followed it up with wine at the South Bank Centre, explored the Tate Modern where I got told off for laughing at Rothko's too loudly and for taking photos of pieces of glass (?????????), wandered past ...

... and the red light district, ate an early dinner and watched a bit of the Six Nations Rugby Tournament, and then went to the Tate Modern Museum of Art for the evening opening. We took a relaxing stroll along the banks of the Thames, up to the millennium ...

... very hard. The 1000's of drug boxes are mesmerizing and most people ignore the magnificent Moai. Our final museum is the Tate Modern, situated along the South Bank of the River Thames. Christina finds this her favourite museum, but for us everything ...

... offer quite a few free sights which we took advantage of, including the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, Tate Modern Gallery, and Tower Bridge. But we had to splurge some more, so we also paid to ride the London Eye ...

... of you that don't, like us, never fear there is a solution here. On a rainy Sunday we decided to take in the Tate Modern but found ourselves walking away more impressed with the architecture of the building (which we think used to be a power station) ...

... days (so, so long ago), visited on his honeymoon for all of half a day. Along with his lovely bride Nicola we visited the Tate Modern before meeting up over a couple of ales with another old uni mate I hadn't seen for nigh on 10 years. The other old ...

... ) - james g and trin a (mark´s mates) - brian and john (travel buddies from tibet). stuff we saw - tate modern - buckingham palace - brixton market - camden market - burrough market - tooting - natural history museum - british museum ...

... of Ann Boleyn (Queen Ann from The Other Boleyn Sister, pretty cool!). Afterward we had walked over Millenium Bridge and visited the Tate Modern Art Museum and took pictures of the Globe Theatre where Shakespear had his plays. To top the day off Corey ...

... , this is London !!! We passed the giant ferris wheel or commonly known as the eye, and we moved along the Southbank. At the Tate Modern, across the Millenium bridge is my favourite building, St Pauls. I really wanted to run across and hang out, but the ...

... than that, not much to write about. Again, spent most of the day as a tourist watching changing of the guards at the Buckingham Palace, visiting St. Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and Tate Modern Museum. You can view some pictures ...