Day 16: Down to Glasgow
June 29, 2025
[Descriptive text is coming as soon as we have a time to catch up!]
Day 4: Turner, the Thames, Trafalgar, and the Terpsichorean
June 17, 2025 [Click on any photo for a larger view] By this day, the jet lag was mostly gone. We had an easy morning and evening planned, and a mostly unplanned afternoon. We had changed our mind about one thing. The Tate Britain and Tate Modern art museums had both been on our list, and we were going to go to the Modern first. But I wanted to see some Turners (at the Britain) and so we decided to go there first in case museum fatigue would later put that out of play. The Tate Britain is near the banks of the Thames about two miles due south of the British Museum and an even longer walk from our hotel. But it was a short subway ride from King's Cross to Victoria Station followed by an easy walk to get to the Tate. The museum was much less crowded than the British Museum. The Tate Britain , formerly known as the National Gallery of British Art, is one of four museums in the Tate network of museums in England. It features mostly British art from the time of the Tudors to more conte...
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