Thursday, May 25, 2006
St. Pauls Cathedral and Tate Modern...from the outside where we were allowed to take photos
The Tate Modern as viewed from the top of St Pauls Cathedral, was pretty different inside lots of real abstract art which combined with the crazy visual hallucination inducing jetlag that we were experiencing left us pretty drained. The bridge you see is the millenium bridge which takes us over the Thames
St Pauls cathedral was a pretty breath taking experience, absolutely huge with some amazing artwork inside. What suprised me the most that it was really more of a war memorial than a church with plenty of sculptures of old generals hand in hand with sculptures of angels, don't get me wrong have got nothing against war memorials but it was pretty clear that back in those days there was a pretty huge effort to intertwine war with doing gods work. I guess a pretty successful way for politicans of the time to convince their people to fight for them.
