{ "items": [ { "type": [ "h-entry" ], "properties": { "_id": [ 6638 ], "url": [ "https://macdaraconroy.com/2006/06/big_smoke_here_i_come/" ], "uid": [ "https://macdaraconroy.com/2006/06/big_smoke_here_i_come/" ], "author": [ { "type": "MacDara Conroy", "properties": { "name": [ "MacDara Conroy" ], "url": [ "https://macdaraconroy.com/author/macdara/" ], "photo": [ "http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/37167652532c121404900106c4b087d9?s=96&d=mm&r=g" ] } } ], "published": [ "2006-06-20T14:16:56+01:00" ], "updated": [ "2017-03-22T18:38:30+00:00" ], "content": [ { "html": "A week from tomorrow I will be popping over to London for a short three-day visit, ostensibly to see the Modernism exhibition at the V&A, and to hang out with my good buddy Dave R who's escaping from Redditch for a while.\n\nBut I do have another motive: I'm determined to visit the Rough Trade shop, at long last, after my two previous abortive attempts (in 2001, lost in Covent Garden; and 18 months ago, bewildered on the wrong section of Talbot Road). If I don't find it this time I'll cry, I really will.\n\n\n\nAside from that, I'm planning to fill up the rest of my time with some quirky sightseeing and gallery-hopping. My current list of attractions is as follows:\n\n
\n\nI'd also like to take some interesting photos around the city, for which I'll do a bit more research on good architectural walking tours and the like before this weekend. My time in London may be limited, but I want to make the most of it. (Hell, I'm paying enough for the privilege.)\n\nSo I might as well turn this question to the audience: What should I see? What's good to photograph? What am I missing? Your contributions will be muchly appreciated -- bonus points for anything that's free.", "value": "A week from tomorrow I will be popping over to London for a short three-day visit, ostensibly to see the Modernism exhibition at the V&A, and to hang out with my good buddy Dave R who's escaping from Redditch for a while.\n\nBut I do have another motive: I'm determined to visit the Rough Trade shop, at long last, after my two previous abortive attempts (in 2001, lost in Covent Garden; and 18 months ago, bewildered on the wrong section of Talbot Road). If I don't find it this time I'll cry, I really will.\n\n\n\nAside from that, I'm planning to fill up the rest of my time with some quirky sightseeing and gallery-hopping. My current list of attractions is as follows:\n\n\nThe Tates, Modern and Britain\nThomas Demand at the Serpentine Gallery\nFuture City at the Barbican Art Gallery\nThe City of London Festival\nDan Holdsworth: At the Edge of Space, Parts 1-3 at the National Maritime Museum\n\n\nI'd also like to take some interesting photos around the city, for which I'll do a bit more research on good architectural walking tours and the like before this weekend. My time in London may be limited, but I want to make the most of it. (Hell, I'm paying enough for the privilege.)\n\nSo I might as well turn this question to the audience: What should I see? What's good to photograph? What am I missing? Your contributions will be muchly appreciated -- bonus points for anything that's free." } ], "summary": [ "A week from tomorrow I will be popping over to London for a short three-day visit, ostensibly to see the Modernism exhibition at the V&A, and to hang out with my good buddy Dave R who’s escaping from Redditch for a while. But I do have another motive: I’m determined to visit the Rough Trade […]" ], "category": [ "Self", "travel" ] } } ] }