The Geffrye Museum
Bill writes: On Sunday we went to the Geffrye Museum.
Here, you can find recreations of rooms from each period of English history, from the Elizabethan era, onwards. The rooms use original period furniture throughout. For instance, here's a Late Georgian room (1770-1800):
It's wonderfully laid out, you just walk from one room to another through the length of the building. It's one of those museums, along with the Museum of London and the National Portrait Gallery, that give you an overall sense of London throughout different periods in her history. And I ought to mention what a bargain it is. It's free (though donations are welcome of course) and an audio tour (which I highly recommend) is only $1. Plus there is a great garden outside as well as galleries on the subject of modern design, and a very nice cafe, where, of course, we had tea. That's us: get on the Underground, enter Museum, look around, stop, drink tea.
I will add, that on hot days we've branched out by having one or more Pimms:
The problem is, after drinking a pitcher of Pimms, it's really difficult to navigate to the top deck of a moving double-decker bus.
Here, you can find recreations of rooms from each period of English history, from the Elizabethan era, onwards. The rooms use original period furniture throughout. For instance, here's a Late Georgian room (1770-1800):
It's wonderfully laid out, you just walk from one room to another through the length of the building. It's one of those museums, along with the Museum of London and the National Portrait Gallery, that give you an overall sense of London throughout different periods in her history. And I ought to mention what a bargain it is. It's free (though donations are welcome of course) and an audio tour (which I highly recommend) is only $1. Plus there is a great garden outside as well as galleries on the subject of modern design, and a very nice cafe, where, of course, we had tea. That's us: get on the Underground, enter Museum, look around, stop, drink tea.
I will add, that on hot days we've branched out by having one or more Pimms:
The problem is, after drinking a pitcher of Pimms, it's really difficult to navigate to the top deck of a moving double-decker bus.
posted by Bill | 7:04 PM
1 Comments:
Bill, I was just catching up on your blogs today and noticed the references to Groucho. I found this reply to a Movie Answer Man question by Roger Ebert that I think you will like. It is so perfectly Groucho.
"For some reason, your letter reminds me of the night in 1972 when Groucho Marx was given a French decoration at Cannes. The festival president, Gilles Jacob, called a translator onstage, but Groucho waved her away, explaining, "I speak perfect French." Jacob proceeded to read a proclamation honoring Groucho and put a ribbon around his neck. Then Groucho said to Jacob: "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"
Were those fries, er, chips in that bowl?
Eric
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