Queen's Picture Gallery, London

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=55 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Church and Cemetery, Kintbury"><U><B><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id131.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Scottish Island"><U><B><IMG SRC="0420e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>       </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="London Trip 9 2009"><U><B><IMG SRC="0450e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=425 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <div> Queen's Picture Gallery, London</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="86f132c0.jpg" border=0 width="787" height="556" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Friday was our final day in London, and we made the most of it.  We began at Buckingham Palace with our first visit</div> <div> to the Queen's Gallery to view this Flemish painting exhibit.  I purchased the catalogue to the show and read it on the</div> <div> plane going home.  There were several paintings in it to die for, including a winter interior of a barn by Rubens.  The jewels</div> <div> were out, too, in the Treasures exhibit.  Insane amount of jewels, including a belt made with very, very very large emeralds.</div> <div> Next we went to see the <A HREF="http://www1.walthamforest.gov.uk/wmg/about.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www1.walthamforest.gov.uk/wmg/abo"><U>William Morris House</U></A> in Walthamstow, coming across a lively street market and a nice pub too.</div> <div> The Morris Gallery was packed with items from the Arts and Crafts movement, such as stained glass, books and furniture.</div> <div> Back in London we visited a few final pubs, met Caroline for dinner one last time, then packed and went to bed early.</div> <div> We had to be at Heathrow by 7.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>