<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/wellcome-trustjul18.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5109" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/wellcome-trustjul18-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>A weekend in London staying with Jane's brother is always delightful, if a little hectic. The city is always so frenetic and in the middle of a heat wave everywhere is exhaustingly hot, no more so than on the top of a bus or in the bowels of the earth on a Tube train.

We started with a visit to the <a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/visit-us?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIisj9h5yk3AIVDRIbCh3LMwc4EAAYASAAEgIi0_D_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wellcome Trust collection</a>. This has been recommended to me by a number of people so it was opportune to visit. It's a lovely building and the collection consists of medical implements and health related exhibits - from midwives forceps to prosthetic limbs dating back to previous centuries.

It's worth a visit if you're near Euston station with time on your hand and it's free!

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rodin-kissjul18.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5104" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rodin-kissjul18-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>On Saturday we visited the Rodin exhibition at The British Museum. What an incredible building. In the past you could walk in through the front door now you have a circuitous walk through a maze of barriers before going through security (bag searching). It's at times like this that I believe the terrorists have won.

The Rodin exhibition contained some of his more famous works - The Kiss and The Thinker. It explored the influences he took from the Greek sculptures found around the Acropolis and elsewhere.

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The delicate work as depicted in these marble friezes is humbling. This work was being completed over 2,000 years ago, by hand with very basic implements.

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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/estorik-gallery2jul18.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5101" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/estorik-gallery2jul18-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>On Sunday morning it was a quick visit to the <a href="https://www.estorickcollection.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Estorick gallery</a> just a few minutes walk from Jane's brother. It's a small gallery focussing on Italian work with a special collection of graphical work advertising Campari.

I realise how sheltered a life I've led when I realise I've never tasted Campari.

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There were a number of  of pencil sketches in the main galleries which were particularly eye-catching. This one was called The Boxer and caught the movement of a boxer. If you look carefully you can see a boxing glove in the centre of the drawing.

A delightful gallery based in a large Georgian House in an ordinary street.