While here at the fabulous St. Pancras train station I’m using the also fabulous free WiFi service here. I was supposed to meet Robin here for lunch, but her class decided to take their instructor to lunch. What a bunch of suck-ups. I mean that in a nice way. At least it gives me a chance to upload some photos.
After I walked Robin to class, I stopped by an upscale electronics store to buy a mophie extra power pack for my iPhone. No luck so I changed my original plan of going to the National Portrait Gallery and made a tube hop to the Apple Store in Covent Garden. They had the mophie I was looking for, and I enjoyed the visit to Covent Garden. Photos in a coming-soon blog.
But now I gotta get some of these yesterday photos uploaded before I lose track of them.
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| I started the day yesterday with a tube ride/hike to Hyde Park, hoping to visit the Sepentine Gallery, which was closed. I asked if it would be closed all day and they said "Yes, until June." I decided not to wait and walked back across the park. Lots of dogs there. These two Golden Swan Chasers were having a great time. |
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| I said "Give me a classic swan pose" and the swan struck this 10-second pose. Maybe 5 seconds. |
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| A nice spot on Hyde Park’s Serpentine Lake to have a snack. |
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| Looks like the Swan & Pigeon Patrol has discovered a kid with bread. |
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| Harrod’s department store is in the neighborhood so I stopped by. Harrod’s has 22 different upscale bars, cafes, and restaurants, and lots of other food markets and counters. I recommend the cuttlefish, above. |
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| More Harrod’s. Whole Foods will never seem the same. |
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| Makes me wonder what I missed by just staying on the first floor. |
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| Harrod’s perfume department. The scent in here os lovely but overpowering (cough, gasp, choke). |
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| Harvey Nichols, famous for its window displays, is about a block away from Harrods. This window display rivals almost any gallery exhibit I've seen. I love love love these paintings. And the entire presentation. This photo just shows about half of the windows of this particular display. |
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| Very contemporary and impressionistic. Love the paint spatters, splashes, and smears on the glass. |
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| Detail of a painting. The artist is Andrew Salgado. I love you man. |
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| The window displays include mannequins that are splashed with paint. |
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| Love the messy paint on the windows. I keep seeing that homeless guy reflected in windows, but when I turn around he’s gone. Creepy. |
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| Speaking of galleries, most tube stations are also galleries. This exhibit at Gloucester Road is based on a Big Ben theme. |
