London On Ice

The Natural History Museum was on our list of places to visit, but we sped up our timetable on reading that London had chosen this venue for its first-ever ice sculpture exhibition. It seemed like a large part of London was there, and the event was a huge success with all the requisite trappings of a public festival, including food booths and corporate sponsorships. What wasn't so prominent were the ice sculptures. There were nine in all, crafted from blocks of ice imported from Belgium. Exactly why it was necessary to import the ice, I never did understand but that's just one of the complicated things I don't get about the relationship between Britain and the rest of the European Union, which an estimated 2/3 of Brits despise and think ought to be de-emphasized and governments both Tory and Labour pursue with equal vigour. As for the sculptures themselves, I suspect any competent chef from the Riverhouse could have created something more spectacular. Still, we give them credit for trying. It was, after all, their first time.