Saatchi Museum and more Brahms

Now Saturday in London. It started off with a slight drizzle (which never materialized into anything more) as we made our way to the half-price ticket booth in Leischester Square for tickets, but we didn't find anything good so we continued on to the Saatchi Museum at its new location in Chelsea in the Duke of York's Headquarters.

American Art of course, as most art and theater here seems to be American, but a great selection with a fine sense of humor in a beautifully renovated building.

And to make it even better, there was a outdoor food market right there with all sorts of wonderful cheeses and lovely sweets and lots of ethnic food,,,just in time for lunch. I had a quiche and Mitch had a lovely lamb and mint pie from the pieman with a luscious custard tart for his dessert.





Then his refrain for the rest of the day was "I'm never going to eat again."

Back on our trusty double-decker bus and in the "terror seat," we rode back to the Embankment and walked over the Jubilee Bridge

(Mother, I think this replaced the swaying one you remember) to the Southbank Center where they were having yet another food festival - wine and cheese this time- and a free string quartet at 4 p.m. Quatuor Ebene and Brahms’ Piano Quintet.

Southbank is wonderful people watching, and remarkably family friendly with tots and small children running all over the place, and adults chatting and free wi-fi! We considered moving in!

After the concert wewtalked back across the Thames and mounted our trustee double decker again back to Edgward Road and dinner (gyro and falafel) at one of the many, many Lebanese restaurants lining the roads - all with hookah smokers out in front. ..I'll try to get a picture later.