Lots of fun stuff. Everything is old, sculptural, alive. I didn't expect to like London as much as I did. Matt and I decided to buy tickets for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre for Bedlam, a play written for the Globe. We decided to go outside of the main area to eat dinner and found a wonderful neighborhood restaurant/bar called the Walnut Tree on High Road in Leytonstone where I had Morrocan meatballs, and Matt had a curried cous cous dish. Both were good and the prices very reasonable.
After dinner we walked around the town. Lot's of row houses. Lots of fake stained glass in them... WHAT? Promised myself to take my camera back there the next day for proof but we never got there.
But, some of the most fun things were quirky things we found around town... Oversized chairs made of astro-turf:
Love this funky little painted van. I am kind of jealous - would love an old van I can paint up however I want without having to worry about resale value.
I actually took this for a friend of mine, Marapat, who is a wonderful writer and in the process of publishing her first children's book. This one's for you!
When the day was done, we checked into our hotel, the UMI Hotel, 16 Leinster Square, Bayswater, City of Westminster, London W2 4PR. The first is a picture from our room, and the second is a photo of the entrance. The entrance photo is typical of businesses and housing that we saw around London.
Statistics: According to my pedometer, we walked 19,968 steps, burned 603 calories, and covered 6.3 miles. Not bad in a days work!
Inspiration this day gave me: Definitely have to do ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI next year. No Doubt.
Photos: On top of these photos, I am little by little posting more photos on my Facebook. Look me up: Patty Sailus Deere .
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