We went to all kinds of places yesterday, and with each turn it just kept getting better. Our day started off at Portobello road (near Nottinghill) where we walked the entire section of goods for sale. If you could dream it, they had it! There were antiques, clothes, books, food, produce, jewelry, etc. I took a picture of a bakery stand (along with two others) and the shopkeeper was not happy about it. I suppose that is why she wasn't selling anything. I don't think anyone actually took her picture, but she was angry nonetheless. Reminded me of Haymarket in Boston, where they used to throw food at people they didn't like. Next we traveled to Trafalgar square, when it started raining. We hopped into the National Portrait gallery, and I was pleasantly surprised. We saw tons of famous paintings and artists, and it was packed. I guess this weekend is a holiday weekend, so the locals are out en masse. We wandered through a socialist party rally and it started raining again, so we went to a pub. The Sherlock Holmes pub provided Guinness and interesting memorabilia about the detective in a touristy way. Next we popped into St Martins of the Field (too modern for my liking), and then we went to the British Library. What a wonderful place! We saw Shakespeare texts, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn orginal music docs, DaVinci and Michelangelo manuscripts and Darwin notes. The best thing was the Bible codices and illuminated manuscripts, that was cool, very, very cool. We rounded off the day with the obligatory tourist food, fish and chips AND Irish leek sausages with colcannon (mashed potatoes). I passed out around 9pm. Long day, loads of fun.
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