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London Adventure 2026

A little bit of an interim post.. I'm having a long weekend jolly in London with a friend and we're having a great time.  We are staying in an airbnb in sunny Dalston and it's fantastic place.  I'm not putting pictures up because it's somebody's home and that would be intrusive but it's very comfortable and very welcoming I'm full of interesting objects. Its part on an old chapel and its obvious someone creative lives here.  It has a place to sit on either outside so we can be in the sun both morning and evening... and is very convieient for tube stations so easy access to everywhere we want to go.
We started on arrival with the Tracy Emin exhibition at the Tate Modern.  This has had very mixture revews and I have to say while I'm quite pleased to have been to see it I found it incredibly depressing and sad and pretty grim. ... and while I appreciate her openess and honesty I'm just not sure whether it's what I want to have shared.  There is enough  doom and gloom in the world without having Tracy shouting out her most personal grim experiences from a large screen.   She's very interesting woman and very much a woman of our times which is why I wanted to see it.  Her experiences are not dissimilar to those of a lot of women across the world in general - she's chosen to make art from it - other people just suffer.  I would recommend people to go because it is quite an honest statement it's just not a statement I particularly enjoyed although I suppose enjoyment is not the key issue... raising the issues might be where it's heading...
The rest of the Tate modern was quite interesting as usual. There was nothing in the turbine hall and a couple of the galleries were being rehung but we had a mosey about and it was quite good fun.
We headed to our home for the weekend and after exploring this quirky but really interesting flat we sat on the balcony drinking wine in the sun finally realising we needed to go find food to soak up the alcohol.  Burger and chips and more wine in a pub local to the airB&B.  it was quite nice - london pub vibes -expensive food🤣🤣

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