like a tourist

Today we spent some time seeing the traditional sites of central London. The house of parliament, the changing of the guards, the national gallery. Many of these I have seen before in photos. In person is better. Except maybe the changing of the guards, where we competed with a couple thousand other folks for a good view of... people standing still (at least for most of it). Maybe someday I'lll look that one up on youtube.

Central london has 3 large parks, which were quite nice and green. We made use of two of them for a sausage, cheese, and cracker lunch. The first time because it was lunch time. The second time because looking at art in the national gallery tired us out. Standing around looking at painting is harder than it looks! We did find some really nice van Gogh and Serat paintings, though. I find works from the 1800s on to be much more energizing than the 1000 paintings of  20 saints that count as "great art" before that time.