630 to 740nm

We (Brunette & moi) have decided to view the new Jean Nouvel's Serpentine Pavallion today and what a better way spend the day loafing about under the pretense of Architecture. The weather was hot and the sun was shinning brightly. Everyone was sprawling like lizzards on each square foot of grass. The pavallion was busy as well. It shouted red but it didn't prepare me for the red experience I'll be thrown into. Everyone looks red and it took me a few minutes to adjust my eyes to the new colour hue. The Brunette was quick off the mark to grab us a table - Well done, mon cherie! We were naughty enough to stop at M&S in Knightsbridge to pick some provisions (i.e. 2 bottles of wine, a chocolate dessert, olives and cherries) because we expected that the pavallion cafe's queue would be endless. We were right! But we needed water and reluctantly made my way to the bar. Usually, I would follow the great British traditional past time of queuing but today I felt mischevious enough to cut the spiralling snake (19 humans long) and go for the kill. I could feel the death stares and the back of my next supplemented with the red heat from Nouvel's red awning. Within 3 minutes, I got my bottled water and the deed is done. Bravo Guido!

We sat there for most of the afternoon reading, sleeping, drinking, eating, people watching, talking and more drinking before heading to a soiree in leafy North London. Nouvel's red idea was to promote the symbolistic London red of post boxes, telephone boxes and buses but I felt it was more Tiananmen than Big Ben.