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England Nov 2024, day 7 pt. 1: Museums
And back to not sleeping well, with bonus hot flashes. Sigh. Woke up just before 8, ditto ditto and so forth. I immediately headed out to the V&A for the big exhibition on the Mughal Empire, which had a lot of good stuff. This isn't my usual beat, so I was quite interested to learn more. The general direction of the exhibit was how the diverse cultures present in the Mughal court led to artistic styles that combined elements of all of them.
After that, and a cup of tea and a sit, I just ambled through galleries. I'd missed that they had a brand new jewellery gallery, combining stuff that had been in a bunch of other places (including the bunch of 19th century fakes of Renaissance pendants that used to be on the ground floor). I spent a lot of time staring and drooling, but finally my feet were giving out and I needed lunch, so S. (who had been at the Science Museum, his quondam employer) and I rendezvous'd and went up the road to a Lebanese cafe for a plate of mezze, which was excellent. I did not know the Levant had a version of patatas bravas and I am here for it.
We've now come back to the hotel room to rest before going out to our Big Dinner of the trip; in good part due to general meat-sack exhaustion, but also I was feeling a bit under the weather for much of the day, and thought that perhaps I have been trotting too hard.
After that, and a cup of tea and a sit, I just ambled through galleries. I'd missed that they had a brand new jewellery gallery, combining stuff that had been in a bunch of other places (including the bunch of 19th century fakes of Renaissance pendants that used to be on the ground floor). I spent a lot of time staring and drooling, but finally my feet were giving out and I needed lunch, so S. (who had been at the Science Museum, his quondam employer) and I rendezvous'd and went up the road to a Lebanese cafe for a plate of mezze, which was excellent. I did not know the Levant had a version of patatas bravas and I am here for it.
We've now come back to the hotel room to rest before going out to our Big Dinner of the trip; in good part due to general meat-sack exhaustion, but also I was feeling a bit under the weather for much of the day, and thought that perhaps I have been trotting too hard.