So I don’t regret going to Bath at all because it was great, but it definitely made me sicker than I already was. Today I was supposed to go to Leeds castle but I just couldn’t do it because I was too sick. Rosie was really excited to wake up and find me still there, and I felt well enough to head down to Southbank to check out some galleries so we woke up Martin and headed down there. We went to the Hayward gallery which was absolutely AMAZING. Antony Gormley’s “Blind Light” exhibition was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. The main attraction was this huge glass room filled with dry ice that made the room one big cloud. You could walk inside the room, but you would bump into people because you couldn’t see more than a foot in front of you. It was also interesting to look in from the outside and see people walking along the walls. You just have no sense of where your body is in relation to anything else, it is a very unique experience. Rosie literally held my hand the whole time because she was too scared to walk on her own! I also liked capacitor and allotment, and especially event horizon where he placed iron-life size casts of himself all over the tops of buildings in the city…check out the website to get a better idea of what I mean!
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gormley/
We left the gallery and walked along Southbank to find that there was a huge festivals going on. It was to raise money for refugees worldwide. We checked out some of the stands, found a huge book sale, and then the best thing ever happened. We found a Jamaican BBQ pit! It was horrible because I was so sick that I couldn’t really taste my food, but deep down I knew I was eating the best thing I had ever tasted. BBQ chicken, fresh corn, and to top it off at the end I got a whole coconut to myself! I think today was one of the best days I have had here so far because it was all about exploring and just seeing what happens.
(These pictures are of Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, Martin in Blind Light, the Jamaican BBQ pit, and of course my delicious coconut.)
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