We had a great weekend of exploring a chilly but mostly sunny London. On Saturday, we walked around the Marylebone area, which has lots of small shops and cute neighborhoods. It reminded me a little bit of being in Boston, with lots of small townhouse-style buildings and small streets, except that the buildings are all different colors instead of brick. This is a picture we took of a small residential street:
What was the best thing about this neighborhood, you may ask? The cheese room. That's right - we went to this store near Derek's office (http://www.lafromagerie.co.uk/), which has a climate controlled room that houses hundreds of different kinds of cheese to choose from. This is probably a third of the selection:
You just go in, and say to a very helpful British employee, "We liiiiiike blah blah blah kinds of cheese." And they just select a couple for you to taste and then you can buy what you like. It's fantastic.
We also did some stuff that did not involve food, believe it or not. On Sunday, we walked through Picadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square, and spent a couple of hours in the National Gallery (the big art museum in London). I am not going to lie - I went straight for the wing with Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Gauguin, etc. Derek, on the other hand, was fascinated by still lifes. It seems he is drawn to the precision of paintings that look like photographs. This is one of my favorite Van Goghs, A Wheatfield, with Cyprusses...has been since I saw it here in London in college:
While I have no expertise in art whatsoever (as you may have guessed), I just like the way it seems like everything in the picture is moving in the wind, and the colors are beautiful.
We rounded out our weekend with a nice Sunday Roast at a pub down the street, and have started another busy week at work!
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