{"id":746,"date":"2010-04-04T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:06:56","slug":"buckingham-palace-the-va-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/buckingham-palace-the-va-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace, the V&A – in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, we tubed & walked to Buckingham Palace, and looked at it from the outside with masses of other tourists. I really think all the English people are gone for the 4-day Bank Holiday, leaving the city to us foreigners. We had to do some finagling to get the Arsenal tix delivered, because the office of Apartment Services, Ltd.<\/a>, the agency that we got our rental through, was closing for the holiday.<\/p>\n

We walked through Hyde Park in the rain, and finally wended our way to the Victoria & Albert Museum – we tried to take a detour to avoid construction, and almost lost ourselves in the winding streets again.<\/p>\n

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Sara Impey, Family Circle, \u00a9 2006, 112 x 109 cm This quilt won QUILT 2006 at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham 2006. Congratulations Sara!<\/p><\/div>\n

I had us pay up extra for the Quilt Show at the V&A, Quilts: 1700 – 2010, a well put together show (although more shuffling with the tourists) where the curators interspersed modern quilts with historical. I liked Sara Impey’s<\/a> stitched letter quilts the best – picture above and links to more.<\/p>\n

After the V&A, we once again tubed back, dried out, cleaned up, and went to tea at Fortnum and Mason<\/a>. I was a little disappointed in the tea – the sandwiches were kind of indifferent, the egg salad on a little Brioche football shaped bun not all that flavorful, the cress in the cucumber gritted on my teeth, the chicken wasn’t all that tender; and all the pastries had little things not quite right – the madelines were too dark on the bottom, the jam cookies had seedy raspberry jam. The scones and clotted cream and the tea itself were the best parts.<\/p>\n

We had about half an hour to cruise through the National Portrait Gallery <\/a>– so not worth it to cough up the admission for Irving Penn, and we were after the last admission time anyhow, so we stuck to the free stuff. I liked the Tom Phillips<\/a> corner: Iris Murdoch, Brian Eno, Phillips himself<\/a> the best, but there was a lot to look at in a few minutes.<\/p>\n

We only had half an hour for the Portrait Gallery because we were going to hear a Mozart Requiem<\/a> at St Martin in the Fields<\/a>. It was quite nice, good singers and the lady beside me fell asleep more than I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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