Tyler London Summer

I'm soo tired...

The rampant sight seeing has really started to take a toll on me physically, I think I may take a break from seeing things tomorrow. I had an eight hour marathon today. I went with some girls in my group to Abbey Road again. Then we took the train all the way across town to go to Borough Market by London Bridge. It was very interesting with a lot of different looking food stalls. I think I may go back there on Monday for lunch before I hit the Imperial War Museum.

After Borough Market we walked through South Bank to the Globe, and then from there to the Tate Modern. Though no great art afficiando, I found some parts of the Tate collection rather interesting. They had a number of works by Picasso and Andy Warhol that I liked. I also found it fascinating how Jackson Pollack understood Fractals and was able to paint them 25 years before physicists even discovered that they exist. Some of the modern art was a little too much for me though. I couldn't believe they had one painting where the artist simply just took a knife and cut down the center of the canvas. A lot of the sculpture was really off the wall as well. Some highlights were a neatly formed pile of bricks, a steel girder held up be a two dimensional mountain with a bunch of piles of things that looked like turds spread on the ground around it intended to represent God the Creator. They did do a good job providing explanations for a lot of it though, otherwise I would have been extremely lost.

After the Tate, we went to Lunch at a Turkish place called Taz. It is critically highly regarded but I must say that I was not a fan of the food. After ordering tea it came out in a shotglass. They had about 8 cooks and 10 waiters milling around but it still took us almost two hours to get out of there. I think I will go back to pub fare for my one meal out tomorrow. We then walked across the river past St. Paul's and took the tube to Covent Garden and walked around the market there.

Hope All is Well at Home

posted by tyler @ 6:19 AM