A Foggy Day in London Town

London was bathed in mist today, but was warm, at least to me: I had my jacket tied around my waist the whole day. We started at the Courtauld Institute Galleries because Monday mornings are free (I planned it that way because I'm such a tightwad!). We proceeded to Covent Garden where the ladies looked for treasures and I was sucked into Thornton's. We had lunch at the local Wagamama and then took the Piccadilly Line to Russell Square and thence to the British Museum. We took the #24 bus to Westminster and caught the Jubilee Line back to London Bridge. Our train took us to Edenbridge Station, which is just steps from the Boynton house, so we were home by 6:00. After supper, we saw two more episodes of Downton Abbey -- it's a good season, if you like that sort of thing ... and we all do.

Tower Bridge in the fog

Crossing London Bridge

Monument to the Great Fire 

Somerset House

Modigliani in the Courtauld

Outside the Courtauld

St. Mary Le Strand

Where have all the flowers gone?

Inigo Jones' St. Paul's at Covent Garden

That's Thornton's behind the columns

Treasure hunters

Lunch at Wagamama

 Pad Thai

Grandmother on the Piccadilly Line

"Up, up, up to the Russell Hotel, up, up, up

to the heavy-side layer"

Russell Square

In the court of the Brit

The Rosetta Stone

See Margie, your mom is having fun

That's a pretty special piece of sculpture

The Portland Vase

Leaving the British Museum

Westminster Station...again

It was a wonderful day. The weather was great, the connections were all perfect, the food was good, the art was fine, the buses and trains weren't packed; it just couldn't have been better.

Tomorrow we will be preparing for our trip north to Burton Agnes and Boynton, so we won't stray far from home. There still may be something to report, so stay tuned. That, however, is all for now.

OXO

D.