Victoria and Albert museum London. June 2013

The museum is a huge place full of treasures and "ooohhs and ahhhhhs" of disbelief and amazement. Of course we saw only a smidgen of the exhibitions as we spent time lunching and afternoon tea.. Ing! Then of course there was the shop full of exquisite goodies and fine handcrafted products. Glenn told me to point out the things I really liked and then he went back in and bought me all of them (almost) for my birthday two days later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We met our friend Barbara at the museum and had the day together. We had lunch in the cafeteria, said to be the most elegant dining area in London.

 

The exhibition of glassware was totally amazing and the piece below was made by Dale Chihuly, the same glassmaker who was commissioned to do a series of works for Floriade in Canberra when I went about 20 years ago with Suzie Cliff, Paula and a few others.

 

 

This work was called "Guts". .. How beautiful it is and how aptly named!!

 

More ancient treasures!

 

These were in the cafeteria and were about the size of a large grapefruit. Edible.

 

We said goodbye to Barbara at the end of the day and we went our separate ways after a great day.Baraba had two weeks in London and we were at the end of two weeks and were off to Bedford and the narrowboat adventure.

Bus trip home in peak traffic. There were at least seven buses one behind the other .. A very tight fit at times when there were diversions down one way streets due to construction works. Good view from the top deck though and the bus dropped us at the end of our street in Queens park which was convenient.