London tourist

But I am in London and so some sight seeing should probably be thrown in. There are enough sights here to last it seems as well. First stop for me was the Tate modern. This was the number one tourist attraction in London last year numbers wise. It is a modern art gallery from what I saw and contains a lot of those modern pieces of art which I would call piles of junk. Seriously. A dead bird arrowed to a wall. A blan white square with a red circle in the corner, titled "Death of artisitc freedom", a mangled rubbish bin with a newsreel pouring out of it. Let's be honest, I don't get art and neither do you. Some people just pretend to. In fact, the best piece for me, and the only exhibit I liked, was by this African guy who was really good and took the piss out of modern art. One painting showed him looking on at 'modern' pieces and he looks lost and the caption says something about him questioning what the hell it is all about. He used bright colours too. Always cool I had walked to the Tate Modern from Trafalgur Square (walking around London is like walking along the Monoploy board and had me constantly on the look out for a giant hat, ready to run me over on its way to Mayfair. Did see a red hotel too!). Anyway, the reason for being at Trafalgur was for the Chinese New Year celebrations. There was a festival on that I had chosen to go see. Caught one of the infamous brigh red double decker buses over from Chiswick where i was staying with Paul Leo and had arrived in time for a show of dancers, a selection of chinese food stalls and lanterns and flags blowing around all over the place. It is the year of the rat too and being born in 1984 makes me an honourary member (o: On my way to the tate by foot I stopped for an hour or so to watch some kids in a skate park. At times there were around 100 observers I reckon. Not that they were all that great. But I have found I love to watch them. I was at the tate till around 5pm and then I hit home, found the supermarket had shut at 5 and so ended up out for tea with Paul and Nicky to a Chinese all you can eat buffet. Fitting.