As if the death of Bowie and Rickman were that easy to shrug off, I dug out "Diamond Dogs" and "Changes" yesterday, before my trip. I spent time watching a video on Youtube where someone had put all the Snape appearances into chronological order and made a video that just showcased what a talent that man was.
Anyway, it was decided that we would take a trip to London to see the Lumiere exhibition. I had been warned that it would be busy but that didn't go anyway to preparing me for a busy London really looks like. It was heaving, a mass of people, families, children all parading down closed roads in a quest to view various light installations. Some were exceptional and some were baffling and others were just rubbish but it was so worthwhile to see. It was wonderful to see families walking the London streets together, on a quest.
My one complaint is that many of the exhibits are at ground and eye level and it means that it is impossible to see some of the exhibits. This is London, it needs to be over the head so all can see it. There was an old read telephone box with illuminated tropical fish but the crush of people around it meant that no one bar the people at the front could see it. It would have been nice to see some kindness to the children and allowing them to push to the front to see it.
Anyway, here are my favourites on my trek from Covent Garden to Leicester Square to Trafalgar Square to Westminster Abbey to Regent Street to Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Street and finally Bond Street before walking back to Marylebone and still I missed the exhibits at St James' Park and Kings Cross, maybe next year.
Thank you to London for a great exhibition, I enjoyed myself and look forward to the next one, let's hope if becomes a regular fixture.
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