Tuesday 29th March - Harrods Reposted

How amazing is Harrods ?   7 levels of ultra expensive indulgences.  I am so pleased that Kaylene educated me prior to our departure on the brands of Jimmy Choo and Loius Vitton otherwise I would not have been aware of their importance in the fashion industry.  But on entering Harrods they were there right before my nose. No price tags on these items of course.   But not being a fashion followers we just casually strolled through the store until we reached the food court.  Now this is more our cup of tea, it was facinating and we spend quiet a lot of time strolling around here looking at all the different food items.  Some were reasonably priced others outrageous.   But what was most amusing was the pet kingdom and the pet spa.  Every indulgence for you pampered pet can be obtained from this section of the store.  Even kinky gear for the pooch.  It was a real hoot.

Oxford street was a bit of a dissapointment, Marks and Spencer and Selfridges, but nothing that stands out.  I am sure if you are a devoted shopper like our daughter Anna you would be in seventh heaven but for those of us who arent it was a bit ordinary.

The National History Museum was amazing with some wonderful specimens.  There was an incredible broad range of exhibitions about earth and life on earth.  Several levels of insects, birds, mammals,fossils, fish,  lizards, dinosaurs and minerals.

The National Gallery displays one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of European paintings.  All major traditions of western european paintings are represented from the artists of late medieval and Renaissance Italy to the French Impressionists.  Most of the surviving late medieval pictures are religious, made for alters in churches or for private devotion.  Many have exquisitely decorated gold-leaf backgrounds. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Van Gogh, Monet, Hogarth, Rembrandt and many many more  artists from the 13th century to the 20th century done the walls of this magnificent building.  We enjoyed them, Spock a little more than me as i am just about museumed out now.  No more museums....we have done them all