7 Days in London

I visited the British Museum in the morning followed by a High Tea at the nearby Bloomsbury Hotel.  In the evening I did the London Walks "Westminster by Gaslight" version.  The British Museum was really a walk through and I have attached a few pictures of their Egyptian collection to give you a flavor of the walk through.  My main interest was their Egyptian collection as a follow-up to our trip. There are some cat mummies at the bottom. I don't recall seeing a Pharoah depicted as a lion.  The High Tea was in the Coral Room of the Bloomsbury Hotel and quite tasty.   The Westminster walk was in the evening and not really by Gaslight until the very end. The clock tower has been refurbished but Big Ben is not yet chiming. The Parliament building is also beginning a refurbishment inside and temporary office space is being arranged.  ...

The Street Art walk began in the Spitalfields area of London.  The first few works we looked at were sculptures.  This included about twenty baby orphan elephants, a goat standing on packing cases, a loom interpretation and a sidecar.  The sidecar and baby orphan elephants are by Australian artists.  The elephants are to raise awareness of the poaching of elephants for their tusks through the baby elephants left behind. The goat sculpture was selected by locals to represent their history. The boxes represent trade and the goat from nose to tail represents the character of the area. The area was a Huguenot weaving center so the loom sculpture captures that perspective including the impact of modernization.  The Street Art varied from smaller sculptures and other objects on poles and walls to poster-type applications to painted surfaces.  ...