ANOTHER VISIT TO THE BM! ...and a gelato

As we start to wind down this trip, we had a lazy Sunday. Bob did some laundry, but that's about the only accomplishment for the morning.

Karin, Stew & Susan

Around 1:45, Karin's friend Susan Westwood arrived, after a five hour drive from Somerset. As an outing for the afternoon, we walked to the BM (British Museum), where we said hello to our lion Feng's English relative and visited “the marbles,” the ones that Lord Elgin brought from the Parthenon a couple of hundred years ago.

Main court of the BM

They celebrate the triumph of reason and civilization over the forces of darkness and chaos. Unfortunately, the Greek civilization did not last all that long, and as we anxiously await the outcome of the French election today, we wonder how long ours will last.

Small section of the Elgin Marbles

Hadrian & Antonious

Then we split up, Karin and Susan checking out some water colors while Bob and I strolled through the throngs of largely far eastern tourists taking selfies to view some of the art from ancient Greece and Rome. From a distance, we immediately recognized Emperor Hadrien and Antinous. 

Lovely, lovely Amorino!

On the way home, we passed our favorite Italian gelato store: Amorino. Needless to say we HAD to stop. Again. Bad, bad, bad!

 

Nothing else is planned today except for some down time before dinner at our local Italian restaurant, Sergio's.