Mind the gap - part 2

"Mind the gap" refers to the PA announcement made as you get on and off the 'tube'. I've been riding that alot lately. Mostly it's a lady's voice and is added to the end of each station call "This is Paddington Station. Mind the gap as you alight" The other day it was a guy and I think the recording was stuck because the only things he said was "Mindthegapmindthegapmindthegap. . ."

As I sit here updating today's activities I will start with PHOTOS! Some of them are uploading as we speak. I thought it would be a much faster process and I was gonna get them all loaded into Photo Bucket or some similar place then I was gonna edit them and put them all in fun little folders but I've been here for almost 45 minutes and it's still on 2 of 16. I have no idea which 16 because I was in the middle of selecting them and it just started up loading. I saw how slow it was going so I stopped. I'm not entirely sure they'll get to cyber space today but I am making progress.

Today was a walk in the park-literally. Walking thru Hyde Park in the morning is great ("You know how I love the Park, Bitterman."---What movie?) especially for a dog person because most of London is out walking their dogs at that time. The hostel is straight across the park (actually it's Kensington Gardens but it's close enough) from The Albert Memorial, The Royal Albert Hall and the begining of Exhibition Road. Just down Exhibition Road is the Victoria and Albert Museum (free admission) which is right across the street from The Natural History Museum (free admission) which is next door to The Science Museum (free admission) and all of these are just a few blocks down Brompton Place from Harrods (free admission but possible hundreds to get out!). I made it to two of those attractions. Harrods was NOT one of them. I'm so proud of me! It's actually not hard to not shop knowing that whatever I get today, I've got to carry around for the next six months or pay 3x the price to ship it home. I spent the morning in the V&A. What can I say about the things I saw that more well verse scholars of the arts haven't said. Well done. My favorite part was this huge area called the Cast Courts. It contains life sized replicas of pieces of places like the Parthenon and the Apprentice's Pillar in Roslyn Chapel. Before I found the Cast Courts though I started out in a hall of sculpture, moved through the paintings and the jewellery exhibit, British 1600 thru 1900 and so on and on . . .and on. . .and on. It's a really big place. When I thought it was about lunch time, I tried to find a way out and that's when I came on to the Cast Courts. Lunch time came and went. Finally, fun though it was, I was getting that glazed eye feeling and I was hungry to boot. It was a bit later than I thought so lunch was quick because I still wanted to get to the Natural History Museum. That one was pretty cool, too. Uh, I mean, well done as well. It's got dinosaurs. What more can I say?

Walking back was an option even though my dogs were tired but even though it was close to rush hour on the tube, I gave it a go anyway. I must have been just ahead of the rush, not only was it not overcrowded, I got a seat.

A check of the photo stuff reveals a bust. No pictures today unless I can't get the ones I managed to get at far as the desktop off the desktop. In that case you may see them splashed all over but I doubt it. Well that's it for this entry. I'm gonna go work on the photo stuff.