I have a few more photos to post from my trip up to the Barbican last week.
The Barbican is a big arts centre/venue thing surrounded by various residential buildings (they're of a similar style but were built at different times). You can walk around a lot of the estate as well as the arts centre, and it's huge and usually very quiet at the weekend and excellent for pretending it's the end of the world.
It's also very near the Museum of London - I don't have any photos but it's well worth a visit.
So last week I was up in town to look at the steam train, and then I decided to go for a walk around Barbican, because it's the best place in London to pretend the world's ended and you're the only one left (just me? Oh).
While I was wandering, I happened across the rather fabulous Barbican Conservatory, which is a tropical plant hothouse in the middle of the Barbican. This was super exciting for me, especially as one of my favourite things to take photos of is giant plants (Eden Project ftw). Also it was warmer than outside, so that was nice.
Excitingly, as well as over 2000 (!) species of plant, they also had fish and birds. I am very easily pleased.
It's only open on occasional Sundays, and the next dates are:
Sun 20 Jan
Sun 27 Jan
Sun 10 Feb
...one of which is today. Aren't I helpful? Haha.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/visitor-information/conservatory
