A trip down Southbank
My mother has gone back to the USA for a week or so and left my step-dad and I at home on our own. This is a bad thing to do as we both get bored very easily and my mom somehow manages to keep us all entertained. Without her this weekend we have been struggling to find something to do so we didn't end up sitting around the house and playing video games all day. So we went to Sountbank and wandered around.
At the Festival Hall they had a food market on selling all sorts of yummy things so we got a beer and looked around before deciding to have seafood for lunch there. Paul got a whole boiled crab. It was messy, but very entertaining to watch. I tried a bit, and it had been boiled in a crab boil similair to one my family uses in America but not as spicy or strong tasting so you could still taste the meat. It was very good.
It didn't look quite so pretty when we were done with it.
After lunch and much washing of hands, we walked down the river with ice cream watching the people. We stopped occasionally for a pint or cocktails, so the 20 minute walk to the Tate Modern actually took around 4 hours. We discovered a new gallery called The Wapping Project Bankside on the way, which had some exceptional work by the photographer Jeffery Stockbridge from his 'Occupied' and 'Divine Lorriane' projects. Stockbridge won the Taylor Wessing portrait Prize last year but this exhibition was mainly showing the urban decay of his home town of Philidelphia. Paul and I found a few pieces we wouldn't mind owning, but as mom isn't here we can't purchase anything yet.
Here are a few other photos from the wanderings.
