Today we started off with an around 8am breakfast prepared by Connor and George, and had site report for the London Mithraeum by Cassandra, before leaving for our train. We then walked to the train station and hopped on two trains that took us to our first activity of the day, the Thames River Cruise.
During the cruise, the boat took us around multiple destinations that we had already visited our past 10 days in London. It first started off with the London Eye, and then some destinations like The London Bridge, The Shard, HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge and many more places that we had been to before. What added to the cruise was most definitely the commentary by one of the crew members of the ship, which made it more enjoyable and fun as he was cracking jokes as the cruise we were going along.
After the cruise, we had an impromptu stop, because we were running ahead of schedule. We stopped by the Guildhall Art Gallery, which housed many paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artifacts. We all walked around and viewed each of the pieces on display today, including the permanent exhibit, Pictures of London, which was a collection of paintings that showed scenes from London's history from the 17th century onwards. It showed events painted by different artists, like The Great Fire of 1666 and the opening of Tower Bridge in 1864, but it also showed more mundane occasions like Londoners partying on public holidays, or rushing down the street.
After exploring the gallery, we walked over to our next stop for lunch, called Honest Burgers. The delicious meal helped fuel our energy for our next activity that afternoon, which was exploring the London Mithraeum.
We arrived at the London Mithraeum and we were given a brief explanation about what each exhibit was about and the first exhibit was a contemporary art exhibition called Shift by the artist Claudia Wieser where the ancient and modern art is supposed to collide and combine. The exhibit following directly after that was a wall of over 600 artifacts left or lost by the first Londoners, where you could explore the history and information behind them. The last exhibit that was below the first two was an immersive experience of the restored Temple of Mithras, which was used by the Roman cult of Mithras, that used to meet on that very site in London AD 240. After exploring the London Mithraeum for awhile, we headed over to the train station once again and hopped on a 30min train to the Kew Gardens.
Upon arriving at the Kew Gardens, we were similarly given another site report, but this time about the Kew Gardens by North. After that, we all went our separate ways in groups of 3 throughout the large, expansive, and extensive gardens. In each group, we went through many places while walking through the gardens. Some went on the path that lead all the way up to the river on the other side of gardens, while some went through some of the greenhouses and gardens along the path, like the Rock Garden, and the Temperate Gardens, etc. After our ending our last activity of the day and of our trip, we took three trains back to our apartment and started to get ready for leaving London tomorrow.
-Arwa
During the cruise, the boat took us around multiple destinations that we had already visited our past 10 days in London. It first started off with the London Eye, and then some destinations like The London Bridge, The Shard, HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge and many more places that we had been to before. What added to the cruise was most definitely the commentary by one of the crew members of the ship, which made it more enjoyable and fun as he was cracking jokes as the cruise we were going along.
After the cruise, we had an impromptu stop, because we were running ahead of schedule. We stopped by the Guildhall Art Gallery, which housed many paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artifacts. We all walked around and viewed each of the pieces on display today, including the permanent exhibit, Pictures of London, which was a collection of paintings that showed scenes from London's history from the 17th century onwards. It showed events painted by different artists, like The Great Fire of 1666 and the opening of Tower Bridge in 1864, but it also showed more mundane occasions like Londoners partying on public holidays, or rushing down the street.
After exploring the gallery, we walked over to our next stop for lunch, called Honest Burgers. The delicious meal helped fuel our energy for our next activity that afternoon, which was exploring the London Mithraeum.
We arrived at the London Mithraeum and we were given a brief explanation about what each exhibit was about and the first exhibit was a contemporary art exhibition called Shift by the artist Claudia Wieser where the ancient and modern art is supposed to collide and combine. The exhibit following directly after that was a wall of over 600 artifacts left or lost by the first Londoners, where you could explore the history and information behind them. The last exhibit that was below the first two was an immersive experience of the restored Temple of Mithras, which was used by the Roman cult of Mithras, that used to meet on that very site in London AD 240. After exploring the London Mithraeum for awhile, we headed over to the train station once again and hopped on a 30min train to the Kew Gardens.
Upon arriving at the Kew Gardens, we were similarly given another site report, but this time about the Kew Gardens by North. After that, we all went our separate ways in groups of 3 throughout the large, expansive, and extensive gardens. In each group, we went through many places while walking through the gardens. Some went on the path that lead all the way up to the river on the other side of gardens, while some went through some of the greenhouses and gardens along the path, like the Rock Garden, and the Temperate Gardens, etc. After our ending our last activity of the day and of our trip, we took three trains back to our apartment and started to get ready for leaving London tomorrow.
-Arwa
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