Planet Ruby Starrs

We really crammed what we could into the few days we had in London, having really 'done' the V&A we decided to have a little flirt with the natural History museum and and the Science museum. The Natural History museum proved quite enticing - we initially wanted to see the whale bone in the great hall and got sidetracked by all sorts of fab exhibits - another amazing place for inspiration and interesting photographs....... we entered the ball of fire up the escalator into a world of discovery - volcanoes - earthquakes - we found the earthquake simulator and were 'earth quaked' (slightly tame compared to the real one I was in in Peru) we wandered through the building looking for the great hall there was just so much to look at and the building itself is just fantastic.  I got a bit carried away in the stuffed bird section and thought the whale display was fabulous. By the time we got to the science museum we had a very serious case of museum leg... museum b...

Its been a wet grey day here, good preparation for our return to the UK. We had a nice wander in the rain across Vancouver city centre, taking in some nice buildings we had missed before.  We walked along the water front - all very modern and not really very appealing so we turned back into town and went to have a look at the Contemporary Art Gallery, a small but nicely formed exhibition of landscape, moose and bear paintings by Levine Flexhaug, a Canadian artist famous for his conveyor style paintings pretty much churned out for commercial profit but are strangely compelling when viewed on mass. The other exhibition,  'Be Polite' was a very provocative collection of drawings and paintings by Australian Artist Gordon Bennett detailing the life and oppression of indigenous tribes in Australia.  both interesting viewing in a nice space. We walked back to the apartment  past the landmark science museum an unusual if ugly building that dominates the skyline...