London with Connor

Wednesday, Connor had an appointment with the doctor in South Kensington, and with a rainless day, I went along. We arrived around lunch time and went to Borough Market. I had some Vietnamese curry and Connor had a porkbelly sandwich. We ate in the the churchyard at  Southwark Cathedral before catching the Tube back to South Kensington.  While Connor got prodded and poked, I went to the Natural History Museum, which was slammed. I didn't mind because it the building itself that I love and I didn't have to queue for that. I went back to the V&A to see the Plaster Casts, which are always entertaining: the Victorians were so odd. We took the Circle Line out to Tower Hill to see the World War I commemorative art piece. The Tower was also slammed, but it isn't hard to squeeze up to the rail. The sheer numbers of dead represented by the ceramic poppies is staggering. 

 Waiting for the train from Oxted to Victoria (London Bridge Station

is closed for construction for a couple of weeks)

 Victoria looks festive bedecked with Union Jacks

 Happy traveler

 I am always thrilled with a chance to change trains at Westminster

 Burough Market

 This lively spot was closed when we first went to London in 1978

 The curry was good

 Porkbelly with Bramley apple sauce

 Southwark Cathedral is small but beautiful

 Uncle loves flint construction

 The Shard looms over the area

 Southwark

 Roasted hog

 Back through Westminster

 South Kensington

 The area around the station is a lively pedestrian zone

 Pedestrian zone on Exhibition Road 

(looking toward the Hyde Park Chapel)

 The Museum of Natural History

 Cathedral to Natural Science

 della Robbias in the V&A

 One of my favorite della Robbias

 The quirky plaster casts

 The Victoria and Albert Museum courtyard

 888,246 ceramic poppies

 100 years since the start of WWI

 Home by way of Monument Station

Base of the Monument with St. Magnus the Martyr in the distance

We will probably be close to home today. That's all for now.

OXO

D.