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Advantages: Free and fascinatinf Disadvantages: Sore feet
I recently decided that a visit to The NationalGallery in Trafalgar Square was long overdue. A few minutes walk from Charing Cross tube, the able bodied can climb the front steps of the Portico Enterance of the NationalGallery and get good views of Trafalgar Square and Big Ben. Alternatively you can enter by the low level Getty Entrance nearby or the Sainsbury Wing entrance more to the left .
I personally prefer to wander around a gallery of my own free will but you can get a variety of audio tours (highlights or themed tours, or choose whichever commentary you wish to listen to from over 1000 paintings) or free guided tours. A voluntary donation is suggested. However, I found the labeling of the paintings quite informative as to the background of most paintings.
My first stop when I arrived was the Espresso Bar, not just ...
Advantages: Plenty to see in a fairly small area Disadvantages: B****y cold in winter - fuzzy knickers required
Canada, having holidayed in British Columbia, but B.C is to Canada what California is to the USA, i.e. “in it” but not necessarily “of it”, so this was to be my first experience of mainstream Canada. My wife and I have a Canadian friend whose job with IBM (I’ve Been Moved) keeps on resettling her, the first time in Vancouver, this time in Ottawa – where next? Who knows? Anyway, thanks to IBM, it’s a different floor to sleep on. We went there first in June 2000, and over this last New Year as well.
Getting to Ottawa is relatively easy but limited in choice to national carriers, i.e. BA and Air Canada/Canadian (these two are in the throes of merging, much to their mutual disgust, it would seem). If you’re looking for a bargain basement fare, you want the bread-and-butter routes like Toronto ...
BNibbles 11.12.2000 (22.07.2001)
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Today, as I walked up Pall Mall, I could have easily walked into the NationalGallery through a small entrance in The Sainsbury wing, (a part of the gallery).
However, I wanted to walk further to see how the pigeons were surviving in Trafalgar Square, I can assure you they are fine. So a message to the mayor up-----------up ?---------
and away. I don?t think so, the pigeons stay.
Pigeon feeding is still allowed in front of the NationalGallery, it is allowed although you may be told not to do it by the gallery staff.
You are not allowed to feed the pigeons in the actual square but they are fed early in the morning each day.
Nelson stood proudly as usual and children played in the cascade of water from the central fountain.
Looking down, from the paved area in front of the gallery, the scene reminded me of a playground ...
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