Greenwich &c

The trip to Greenwich was, unfortunately, a bit truncated - the friend I was going with ended up needing to do an errand for another friend of his that took until early afternoon to wrap up - yet still nice. Stood on the longitudinal Meridian line, poked around the Royal Observatory, got to walk underneath the Thames, got to walk around Canary Warf - lots of fancy new buildings there, starkly contrasting the old Roman-esque around the Tower and the Greenwich University. Didn't get to see Inigo Jones' Queen's House or Ranger's Park (which has lots of Renaissance portraits).


May go back - time depending. Have gone back to the Tate Modern for my half-day field trip; thoroughly enjoyed. (My theatre department friends: please, let me find a way to tell David Kaye I now like modern art - most.) Still want to spend a day at the Tower itself and so some more museum and art gallery circuiting. For classical music - Wigmore Hall and the Barbican aren't doing any more until September (the sold out Mozart's Requiem at the Barbican was its last for August), but I can still follow around the BBC Proms and catch superb shows (love the Royal Albert Hall).

Trying to expedite obtaining the Olivier/ Gielgud scripts from Manuscripts at the British Library. Should find out shortly - within the hour. Would like very much to look at their Romeo and Juliets and maybe their Merchant of Venices and then use the audio archives to listen to the same plays over the last few years. Then I can compare to what I've seen now and what I've read of Irving's productions from the late 1800s. Hopefully!

Me and Emmanuel finding our way from the Tower to Greenwich: