More Pictures.

The second album includes pictures from our visit to...

The Tate Museum

Greenwich Observatory

and Stonehenge

I've got more. I'll upload them later tonight hopefully.

Pictures Album 2

Tate Museum and More

Today we made a trek to the Tate British. It was a fairly standard painting museum. I'm not a huge fan of painting but it was interesting to see what the art of the time was doing. Also I have a good deal of problem placing the people that we are researching into the correct time period. There are a few time periods that I just simply cannot imagine what they looked like, how they dressed, and how they acted. Seeing pictures of the people from these time periods really helps place people into their world. The tour guide was excellent in that she knew exactly what she was talking about. Although she did tend to not show us a lot of pictures and rather picked a few that she liked and would spend a long time talking to us about them. I much rather like to enjoy pictures quickly and view more than 8 pictures in an entire museum.

My personal art interest rests more with sculpture and photography. Unfortunately we didn't really see any photography but there were a few really cool sculptures. The first that we saw was a statue of Jacob hugging an angel. It was really good, if a little blocky. Right at the end there were a lot of really cool abstract sculptures. I forget the name of the artist but they were a lot of three dimensional paintings. Pieces of colored wood mounted onto a canvas. My personal favorite were the colored blocks of wood that were mounted onto a hanging clear piece of glass. When you circled around it the view changed in a really cool way.

After we parted ways from the class when leaving the museum my friends and I walked back to the tube station. Half of us went back to cook dinner and the other half went with me to Piccadilly Circus to attempt to find the RailEurope office to buy the tickets for our last remaining leg of our week long trip to get us from Paris to Berlin. It took us a long time to find the office, mostly because I forgot to write down the actual location of the building. We found out that most people in the region didn't know that the building even existed, surprisingly including the local Police. Finally we did find the building and buy our tickets. It's rather relaxing knowing that our trip is planned out and payed for. I'll post more on that later.