Under the pavilion

Back here. I wanted sun and shadow; I got rain and reflection. I took heaps of photos but none really shows the fascination of this fabulous metal-and-glass cloud in the grass.

We walked a few minutes from here to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery designed by Zaha Hadid and opened a couple of weeks ago. The new gallery is much more elegant than you'd expect from its previous life as a gunpowder store (built in 1805) and the attached cafe, with a trademark Zaha Hadid sinuous roof, is interesting outside and fabulous inside. It's expensive, though, and the waiting staff are towards the bottom of the learning curve in their new jobs. Soup with chopsticks, anyone?


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