London…

and a touch of Paris

Sept 2012

 

 

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Week 1 – London

 

 

Really?

 

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Meet Alex, Kate & Stu’s little fella…

 

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Hyde Park…

 

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Ai Wai Wai’s temporary installation at the Pavillion Serpentine Gallery…

 

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Outside the Dulwich Picture Gallery.  Inside was the Andy Warhol exhibition…

 

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Catching up at the Duke…

 

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Back at one of our favourite pubs…

 

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The new Shard…

 

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The London Design Festival…

 

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The Art of Change exhibition by Chinese artists…

 

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We were surprised to discover that this is a real person…

 

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Ping pong anyone?

 

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The faithful Saatchi Gallery…

 

The oil room…

 

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More Design Festival…

 

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and more ping pong amongst the Design Festival…

 

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Week 2 – Visiting Katy’s family in Chipping Norton and Madley

 

Another Alex, Katy’s growing nephew…

 

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Graeme and Claire’s joint 40th birthdays…

 

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Alex learning the ways of his Gloucester heritage…

 

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Week 3 – Back in London

 

The fabulous Kew Gardens…

 

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Overnight in Paris

 

 

 

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The Institut du Monde Arabe

Each of these big and small circular openings

are motorised apertures that react to the light…

 

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One of the weirdest museums is the Museum of the History of Hunting

 

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This is what happens to cats after a night on the gin and pills…

 

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These owl feathers adorned the ceiling of this little room…

 

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Back in London

 

 

Meat fruit entrée during our lunch at Dinner (Heston’s restaurant in London).

That’s right, it isn’t a mandarine!

 

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The “rain” installation in the Barbican.  Wherever you walked, it stopped raining.  Cool hey?

 

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Whitecross Street market…

 

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The new cable car across the Thames…

 

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Preparing for our walk over the O2 Centre (aka the Dome)…

 

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Antony Gormley’s new sculpture.  If you look closely, the figure of a man appears…

 

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Inside the Brixton Market Hall…

 

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