Saturday, September 3rd 2012
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First we took a bus to Highbury and Islington and from there the Overground to Richmond. The plan was to visit Orleans House Gallery and perhaps also Marble Hill House which is nearby.
Orleans House Gallery
However, when we arrived, we discovered that Orleans House was open every day of the week except? Monday. Perhaps we should have done our research a little better.
Never mind, we had our fall-back. Or so we thought. Unfortunately, it turned out that Marble Hill House is open to visitors only at the weekend. Strike two.
Nearby is a ferry that takes you across the Thames. The cost is ?1 per person and it is money well spent as it saves a long roundabout trek to a bridge. The ferry deposits you conveniently close to Ham House, which is where we went next.
Staircase, Ham House
We had visited Ham House, a 17th century house, before but were happy to visit it again. It was open, fortunately.
Ham House has extensive grounds beautifully laid out to resemble the original gardens. A project called the Garden of Reason is taking place. In this a number of sculptures and installations by relatively unknown? contemporary artists have been placed in the grounds. There was a free tour of these. Despite my scepticism about modern art, I went on the tour and did my best to treat the works seriously, hoping to learn something about modern art. Predictably, perhaps, my resolution was gradually eroded as we went round and finally crumbled completely.
Fortunately, the house itself soon restored my equilibrium and good humour. Photography is allowed (without flash). When we visited the house previously, there was scaffolding obscuring the fa?ade but today the outside was revealed in all its glory.
After our visit, we caught a bus to Richmond station and there boarded the train to Waterloo. Waterloo is next to the Southbank Centre (which we visited both yesterday and the day before) and in the Southbank Centre is one of our favourite restaurants, Canteen. So we repaired thither for supper before taking the bus back to the Angel.
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