Sunday, 8 December 2019
The facade of the V & A looms. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design, as well as sculpture, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The tour begins...
Original 400 hundred year old wood structures preserved and on display.
Wooden house façade, built by Sir Paul Pindar, Bishopsgate, London, England, UK, about 1599-1600.
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These plaster-cast versions of famous Renainssance statues by Michelangelo and others allowed 19th century art students who couldn't afford a rail pass to study the classics (Rick Steves).
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Finishing with a viewing of the entrance, of course.
 |  How the entrance lobby chandelier appeared to us - apparently the lights burned out. |
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On to Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens - over 600 acres, established 1536 as Royal hunting grounds and then opened as a public park in 1637, the largest of four Royal Parks that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace.
On to Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens - over 600 acres, established 1536 as Royal hunting grounds and then opened as a public park in 1637, the largest of four Royal Parks that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace.
 |  The Winter Wonderland festival has been a popular Christmas event in Hyde Park since 2007. The Albert Memorial - Queen Victoria's memorial to her husband, the Prince. |
Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner has acquired an international reputation for demonstrations and other protests. We came upon some heated, but friendly, debating going down.
Peace descending on the Quadriga of War - sculptor Adrian Jones - 1912.
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We then boarded an offering of a famous London double-decker bus, finding a perfect front row seat to take in the sights of central London in December.
We then boarded an offering of a famous London double-decker bus, finding a perfect front row seat to take in the sights of central London in December.
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St Clement Danes is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster completed in 1682 by Sir Christopher Wren. Wren's building was gutted during the Blitz and not restored until 1958, and adapted to its current function as the central church of the Royal Air Force.
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Another good long day of touring is in the books (I believe we just missed our train)...
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