London!

We started off in London at the National Gallery for our art history field study. We spent a good two hours in the Impressionist rooms with Daphne's informative and often hilarious narration. Meghan and I did some sightseeing and walked by Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. We saw some of the West End, wandered through Soho, and saw Piccadilly Circus. Highlights:

Street entertainer taking a break outside the National Gallery

Cafe on Whitehall road

Street art by Space Invader in Soho

London by night, near Little Italy

We stayed the night with a friend of Meghan's in Highgate, which is in the northern part of the city. We spent the next day walking around villages (neighbourhoods) in London, and got to see a lot of the less touristy areas like Hampstead and Belgravia. We also spent some time at Camden Market, which was great. There's so much to see and buy and eat there! More highlights:

Temporary lock-up built into the garden wall of Cannon Hall, c. 1730

Hampstead village

Just outside Camden Market

Handmade pies in Camden Market

I'm going back to London tomorrow. Although I'm not staying the night, it will be a very full day: National Portrait Gallery, tour of the Globe Theatre, and then a performance of King Lear at the Roundhouse Theatre (which is right near Camden Market!).