Wednesday in London-part one

Roger's day.

We started off the day sleeping in a bit before we walked to a local fancy coffee/breakfast snack location.  Caro enjoyed her cappuccino while I ordered English breakfast tea.  Amazingly the British don't know how to make tea as they put milk in it. Yuck !!!!!  LOL.

After walking out to Hyde park we separated to do our own thing. 

I walked through the park and then caught the Tube to Trafalgar Square at which point I went into the National Gallery to look at paintings.

I saw many, many paintings and some of my favourites are shown below

Rembrandt-self portrait

Another by Rembrandt. The expression on the old lady's face is remarkable!

Next a Vermeer 

Then a very famous painting by Pissarro

Next a painting by Francisco de Goya of the "rumoured" father of one of our illegitimately born grandmothers, The Duke of Wellington.

A painting I loved by an artist I have never heard of Jacques-Louise David,

Just a wonderful mother and daughter painting.

A the Spanish court painter in the mid 1650's was Velazquez. This is an extremely well known painting of the Spanish King Philip 4th.

The final painting from the National Gallery is an unfinished one by

Le Nain Brothers. Amazing detail in the faces!

After almost three hours in the gallery I walked a km or two to the museum in the home of the late Sir John Soane.  Kept exactly the way it was at his 1837 death ( at his request), there are no labels on anything and even with a guide book I purchased I didn't get as much out of it as I wanted however there are numerous Roman artifacts (and lots of many other things- the place is packed to the rafters with all the things he procured in his lifetime)

The most important thing he had was an absolutely magnificent sarcophagus of Seti the first of Egypt (1300 BC).

Although the photo doesn't show it very well the sarcophagus is covered inside and out with hieroglyphic. OMG 

As it was only about 3:30  when I finished there I still had more time for a second visit in two days to the British museum so off I went!

I saw many things there in the hour I was inside.The photo below is actual artwork from the walls of tomb of Nebamun (1350 BC in Egypt)

I then took the Tube back to the hotel and waited for Caro and when she  arrived later was vibrating with excitement!!