V&A

In between some editing in the morning and web maintenance in the evening, I took the C2 bus from Kentish Town into the city and enjoyed being a tourist.
I first walked through Hyde Park (hence yesterday’s photos), then had lunch in the most amazing restaurant--L’eto.
Your basic deli choices in Northern Ireland are several kinds of meat, shredded cheese, onions, peppers, and egg salad. Here is what L’eto had on offer:

All of this is vegetarian. I thought I’d died and gone to veg heaven. Heaveg?
Desserts:

I had a selection of three salads and no dessert because I was fully sated. No egg salad sandwich for me. Then I got lost on my way to the Victoria and Albert Museum, permitting this photo while I strayed:

Then the Natural History Museum as I righted myself:

Here’s the lobby of the V&A:

Dale Chihuly was represented by a gallery in Kansas City, so I’ve been an admirer since the mid 1990s. To the point where I’m now kind of tired of the whole idea.
I don’t do well in museums because I get so overwhelmed. I don’t have the capacity to read every label of every piece of art in every gallery. So I’m not sure how to proceed. It’s the curse of the linear. I took a tour for more than an hour, which helped me sample treasures from France, Germany, India, Thailand, and England. I love how the point of the museum was to up-skill the work of English artists and trades people. So not so much art for art’s sake as patriotic pride.
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