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This morning we were scheduled to do a ”Secret London” walking tour of markets and graffiti, but it was cancelled at the last minute - not happy Jan! So, as we had a totally free day, we decided to head off to the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery, located not far away on one end of Trafalgar Square, which was very crowded.

The National Portrait Gallery was fabulous - they had a display of the entrants to the BP Portrait Awards - some were amazing. We then wandered around the remainder of the Gallery seeing a range of portraits from 14th or 15th century onwards, up to modern times. Many portraits of the royals - they really weren’t a very attractive lot back in the day. We saw portraits of famous explorers, writers, poets, scientists and leaders, which were interesting. There were also much more recent ones of rock stars, actors and political activists. Definitely worth a visit. Czytaj więcej