Saturday 11 August
I met Cels at the National Gallery to tick off another item from the 'to see' list. Imagine my delight when I arrived and realised I had already seen the gallery in my first week! I was under the impression I'd seen the National Portrait Gallery, but in fact it was the National Gallery.
In any case, being as I am a culture vulture (?!), I was happy to view the gallery again. We spent about 3.5 hours wandering through the gallery and almost got to see the entire collection before the gallery was due to close. I will admit my concentration was waning after about 2.5 hours, with my speed increasing and my attention to each painting decreasing in each new room.
However, we did have a fun time spotting the number of times St Sebastian starred in a variety of paintings (sometimes completely inappropriately), with his usual depiction of being tied and looking like a pin cushion for arrows.
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