Thursday, February 22, 2007

Got Art?

One of the great things about the digital/cyber world is that it makes available most of the world's great art museums to armchair afficionados. A favorite stop of mine in London is the Tate, which now actually is two museums--the original and the newer Tate modern. You can visit both at the same time by going here. You can browse the collection, see what they have of your favorite artists and even take an art history course online, for free. It's the next best thing to being there, though you need to put it on your London agenda. If you are there in person, you can go straight to the cafeteria and have a terrific shepherd's pie and tea after you get your cultural work done...

3 comments:

SS97 said...

I'm going to have to check that out when I'm over there next year. I don't know about the shepherd's pie, though, or any other English food for that matter =p

buckarooskidoo said...

You have to go there as well as to the Victoria and Albert Museum, or the V and A, the Imperial War Museum for the trench simulation, the Churchill War Rooms, the Cenotaph, Westminster Abbey, and Kew Botanical Gardens, to name just a few essentials. Also, of course, Victoria Station, since that is where the British unknown soldier came back home in l920.

Shepherd's pie is beef, potatoes, veggies and some kind of sauce inside a pie crust. it's delicious and all the little old ladies ahead of me in the line were having it, so I figured it had to be good, and authentic, and very British. I was not disappointed!

SS97 said...

Oh, I was under the impression that lamb was one of the ingredients.