30º

Sounds cute & quaint, doesn't it? But let me tell ya -- these folks over here aren't used to thirty degree weather. Pottery Lane is behind (and next to -- this is London) our block of Penzance Place, and last night tempers were flaring. Seemed to have a different effect on us, though...

This morning we went to Negozio Classica for the most fabulous cappuccino (or macchiatto or whatever) in London, but the machine was broken. So we walked up to Tea's Me near the Ladbroke Grove tube station, where we hopped on the Hammersmith & City (pink) line to Moorgate.

View from the train

We were heading to White Cube, and while Old Street is actually a closer station, it's more of a pain to transfer than to walk a few extra blocks. Realizing that it was probably too early for the gallery to be open, we wandered around. Wandered into the Geffrye Museum. Wandered past this place:

See the face?

Then somehow it was 2:00 so we had lunch.

White Cube from our table

The show was Tracey Emin and Steven thought it was going to be annoying, but it was actually very beautiful. Beautiful art about challenging subject matter is so NOW!

Then we decided to go to the Barbican CentRE to see the ColoUr after Klein show. On the way we passed through Bunhill Fields cemetery (where William Blake is buried) and saw these two squirrels:

Two squirrels
No, really!

The Barbican itself is like the love child of Lincoln Center, Embarcadero Center, Logan's Run, Boston City Call, and I don't know what else...

From Barbican tube platform
Three 45-floor towers
Maze of "skywalks"
Black cat in stairwell
Inside the fortress
Bird-feeding grannie...
... in THERE!
Skywalk sight (London Wall!)

Anyhow, on my way home I had to record this:

Homage to Keira

And for those of you who haven't seen it, home is the top two floors of this blue house:

Our "flat"