One of the most frustrating things about London - tube shut downs! The subway system has just 2 tunnels, so in order to maintain the tracks there are engineering works every now and then of entire tube lines. This weekend they closed the District and Circle lines, which threw a wrench into our plan to go to the Tate Modern. We ended up taking a bus and getting the front seats on the second story - which is a great way to see the city for a couple of pounds!
We walked from St. Paul's Cathedral over the Millenium Footbridge (first new bridge built in London in over one hundred years!) to the Tate Modern for the last day of an exhibit at the Tate Modern called the Test Site. This is a picture off their site:
We walked from St. Paul's Cathedral over the Millenium Footbridge (first new bridge built in London in over one hundred years!) to the Tate Modern for the last day of an exhibit at the Tate Modern called the Test Site. This is a picture off their site:
Our trusty local guide Dave has taken 4 trips over so we figured that was a big enough endorsement for us to take a chance. We hopped in line 40 minutes before tickets were distributed (and no, we were not even close to first in line).
Call it what you will, but these are just grown-up versions of the slides we all enjoyed growing up. The big difference is that they are 3 and 5 stories high!
The rest of the afternoon we walked along the Thames River, across to Covent Gardens and walked all the way to Vauxhall Station - in all about 4 miles. My feet felt like they were going to fall off, but we were on a mission: recently the New York Times wrote up a piece on the best Indian restaurants in London. The first one listed (before two with Michelin stars) is called Hot Stuff. Let's just say we were happy it was still light out, neighborhood was not quite like Chelsea! We finally made it, mouths watering down the street, only to find the gate down and no sign of life. Lesson learned: like the commercials say, call first - woops :)
Call it what you will, but these are just grown-up versions of the slides we all enjoyed growing up. The big difference is that they are 3 and 5 stories high!
The rest of the afternoon we walked along the Thames River, across to Covent Gardens and walked all the way to Vauxhall Station - in all about 4 miles. My feet felt like they were going to fall off, but we were on a mission: recently the New York Times wrote up a piece on the best Indian restaurants in London. The first one listed (before two with Michelin stars) is called Hot Stuff. Let's just say we were happy it was still light out, neighborhood was not quite like Chelsea! We finally made it, mouths watering down the street, only to find the gate down and no sign of life. Lesson learned: like the commercials say, call first - woops :)
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Yet again, you kids are too cute...
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