Today Michael Foord and his wife Delia came into London to do the tourist thing with me.
We wandered over to Buckingham Palace and I took the requisite photo of one of the guards.
I loved these fat pelicans (?) in the park near the palace.
After lunch we headed over to the Tate Modern for a special treat but first we got stuck because a film crew was in the area filming a scene for a new Sherlock Holmes movie (we were told it was by Guy Ritchie).
Then a quick peak around the corner revealed St. Paul's Basilica.
To get to the Tate, we had to cross the Millennium Bridge - a great place to stop and take a few pictures.
Here are Michael and Delia with the Tate behind them.
and Delia and me with the sun in our eyes and St. Paul's behind.
The special treat at the Tate was a Mark Rothko exhibit! No pictures, though. I love Rothko. In fact I have Rothko paintings as the background on my desktop and laptop computers. So when I realized that this exhibit was happening, it went to the top of my to-do list.
At the end of the day, we met up with Michael's co-worker Jonathan (another Iron Python programmer) , his wife, and some friends of theirs who were visiting from Denmark (another geek - Java & C# programmer) for Fish & Chip at a great little restaurant called the Gilded Hind. What a treat!
Fish & Chips all around.
Michael constructed (and actually ate) a chip sandwich (update: it's called a "chip buttie") from bread & butter and chips. Eeew.
On to Sofia!
