I started taking a short cooking class at Le Cordon Bleu. Its a four night class and the first night was roast baby chicken with potato puree and chicken jus. The lady across from me must have read the directions wrong because she ended up with blacken chicken jus. We get to take what we made home, so Leanne and i had a nice dinner.
time to eat.
For four night London had a light show called Lumiere
http://www.lumiere-festival.com/
Its set up in different places all over London, so lots of people and lots of walking.
Some of the stuff was not all that interesting, well for me some of it wasn't. As you can see by the bird cage made with florescent lights.
The next one was this large screen. As we watched the colors would change and there was also music to go with it. The music (in my opinion) sounded like something a Tibetan Monk would play. Leanne liked it, i did not.
Next stop was this massive light show on the side of the building. It also had music and at some
points it looked like we were watching a video game as the figures would run up and down the walls.
This one was really great and went on for a while.
It was a chilly night as you can see by the way this good looking guy is bundled up.
More walking, this street was blocked off so it was packed with people
After a long walk down the street we came to the floating fishes.
They changed color as we watched.
as you can see they were a lot better than the bird house we first saw.
Leanne decided to get another great picture of me and had me pose for it-----a long time---i guess she has a thing for eye brows.
On to the light bulb street, I don't think this was part of the show. It was one of the many walking streets that has restaurants on them. We just happen to find it while we were walking.
The last street we went down had wire figures that were lit up. This one appears to be diving off the roof.
Some things were great and some---well some were boring.
Before we went home we went to a British pub, near the Iranian embassy, that had a Thai restaurant on the second floor. As you can see there is a lot of diversity here.
Kenwood house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenwood_House
This is another huge house that is open to the public. The original house was built in the 17th century, over the years it has been added on to the size it is today. Basically a rich family owned it and used it as a summer home or weekend trip to get away from the city. This in northern London and as you can see there was a little snow.
The house was bought in the 1920 buy a member of the Guinness (beer) family. He has just sold his shares of the brewery and had money to spend, so he bought this place. He never stayed here because he had two other house's near by that he lived at. He wanted this for his art collection and when he died he left it along with the art to the nation.
This was the dining room, the kitchen was at the other end of house. The servents had to walk about 100 yards from the kitchen to the dining room.
The lower picture in the foreground is a self portrait of Rembrandt.
There were other odd thing in the house. This is one of the original wheel chairs, to make it move you would turn the cranks on the handles. It was called a Gouty chair and was used by people that had gout.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O58187/gouty-chair-unknown/
The chair was invented by John Joseph Merlin. He also invented inline skates in 1760.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Merlin
This was the stairway with a great looking skylight.
We were told to come back when everything is flowering. Today was a little wet and muddy
The back side of the house had a view of Hamstead Heath a park that is over 600 acres.
A short walk from the house was a great view of the London skyline.
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