A visit to the Middle Temple

The guide was excellent and the sheltered environment in some of the court yard spaces allow lush and tender vegetation to flourish.  The garden of the Master’s Lodge was particularly attractive.  At the end of the tour a short but interesting discussion took place in the Minstrel’s Gallery of the Middle Temple Hall – the training of barristers is highly competitive but relatively short; the training of architects takes much longer.  The guide struggled to find diplomatic responses to the relative differences, strengths and weaknesses between two great professions – the law and architecture!