My friend Alex is currently in training for her Blue badge guide exams, which basically means that her friends get a lot of tours around London for free.
This Saturday I dragged my hungover self to the National Gallery to meet with Alex and some of her other friends. In around an hour and a half she took us to see 6 of the 30 paintings the National Gallery highlight on their website as some of the gallery’s best loved works.
You can find the full list here: 30-highlight-paintings
We visited Bacchus and Ariadne, The Abassadors, The Arnolfini Portrait, The Battle of San Romano, The Wilton Diptych and Venus and Mars. This was a great selection – including some paintings that I hadn’t seen before – I tend to hang out with Impressionsists when I visit the gallery.
It was a real treat – Alex had lots to say about the paintings and now I’ve been spoilt I’m going to find it difficult to go to any gallery without a personal guide!
Now I have no photos of the paintings etc as you’re not allowed to take photographs inside the gallery. However I have some pictures from London Pride which was kicking off outside in Trafalgar Square in the drizzle.
Paramedics having fun with the rainbow crossing
Cool map of London in words on the wall of Byron Burgers – we stopped out of the rain here to get my requisite bacon injection!
Rainbow kilt!
The big blue cock overlooking the main celebrations in Trafalgar Square
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