{"id":3832,"date":"2008-06-14T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2024-09-21T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:00:48","slug":"museums-veg-restaurant-and-pagan-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"British and Horniman Museums, Veg Restaurant, and Pagan Pub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written on June 14, 2008, in Nell of Old Drury Pub opposite Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I returned to the hotel last evening thinking I’d perhaps go out later to a gay pub \u2013 after a short nap, I thought. Instead, I ended up crashing fairly hard and not feeling like getting out of bed despite a fairly troubled night’s sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t developed any affection for the hotel. I heard people talking in the streets and through thin walls to the other rooms all night long. The fan makes such a racket when I turn on the bathroom light that I decided to pee with the light off. My criticism about the TV not working turned out to be unfounded however \u2013 I was pressing the off button on the remote to try to turn on the TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waking this morning, I did a backup of all the pictures I’d taken. I rushed to get breakfast before 9:00: toast with jam, wait for scrambled or sunny-side-up eggs, a bit of juice made from a powder (like Tang), and tea that had such a slimy goo in it I was afraid to drink it. I chatted with a fellow from New Zealand seeking his fortune as an IT consultant in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I walked over to the British Museum and spent four hours inspecting and snapping photos of artifacts. I started with the Assyrian collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I continued with the Egyptian collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finished up with the Benin bronzes and an assortment of sub-Saharan artifacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, I took photographs of some homoerotic Greek cups and vases, in particular, the so-called Warren Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time I finished, I was late for an appointment at the Horniman Library associated with the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill. I didn’t have time to digest the 15 or so books I requested there, so I just typed in the reference information, then went to the museum for a quick trip through the African gallery there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the place wasn’t easy: two buses and a train from London Bridge, but the way back to central London was easier and I took the tube from London Bridge station to Covent Garden. There, I ate dinner at Food for Thought, a traditional veg restaurant. The place was packed, a long line stretching up the downward staircase at the entrance. I waited and eventually arrived at the head of the line, ordered quiche and salad with organic passion fruit juice. I shared a table and conversation with two women of apparently Indian extraction. They recommended another London veg restaurant called Govinda, run by the Krishnas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, I walked to this pub, called Nell of Old Drury Pub. I came hoping to join the Rainbow Earth moot, which I had seen scheduled for this evening in the gay pagan yahoo group. However, it’s now 20:30 and no one has showed up. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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