Last Posting from Britain (assuming I'm allowed back in US)
We are finishing our last day in Britain. We did a number of things in London over the last couple of days, but if he'd had more endurance, more time and more money we could do so much more. Where we are staying is amongst the museums and since it is July and the museums are free, they are filled with school kids from their last days at school or with their parents/nannies/playgroup. We visited the Museum of Natural History which has too much to do in one day, but made sure we saw the dinosaurs, such as the plesiosaur below.
We also visited some fictional monsters at the Doctor Who Exhibit at Earl's Court. The Dalek below missed us every time.
That was all in Kensington. Today was the center of London with a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral...
A view of London Tower (with its pretend bowman below) and a walk up to London Bridge. No tour of the tower to save money and our tired feet.
We did take a short cruise up part of the Thames where I got this shot of Parliament. We had visited there first but couldn't get in. Only the House of Lords was in session and the line was so long they had stopped letting anyone else "queue up" for awhile. That was okay with me. I wasn't up for waiting to listen to the gentry debate on bills they could only stall anyway.
We took the Undergound back to Kensington and have begun to prepare for British security at Heathrow Airport and US Customs back in the States. We leave for the airport about 7 am tomorrow morning but our plane doesn't leave until 10:25 local time (assuming we go on time). We are back in Chicago about 1 pm CDT. Then we deal with the joys which is the GWB's Dept. of Homeland Security US Customs and Border Protection Agency. I'll be on my best behavior so they'll let me back in the country. I'll only think awful things about the current failure of a president.
Hope you have enjoyed my trip blogging. Add a comment please and tell me. Who knows when I'll blog again, but it won't be from nearly as interesting a spot as I've had the great pleasure of enjoying in the UK.
One last picture from the Tower of London just for fun.
posted by redbarb at 1:40 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks, I enjoyed reading this and seeing the pictures! I've been to London but that's it. I liked the Dalek :)
You went with your sister's choir, right? Did they have concerts and stuff, and did you go to them?
Greetings Again!:
I have been on that cruise down the Thames twice (though I gather you went in the other direction), and took a recording of it in 1979, which I still play every October on its anniversary. I have also been in St. Paul's a number of times, but only through the Tower complex once (my eyesight was a bit better then, and I think I could see at least one of the Crown Jewels glittering back at me!). I wish you could have visited the Abbey.
Though, of course, the British Museum, etc., receives many visitors, I have often wondered why there seems to be such a concentration of hotels in that area, which seems not to be duplicated elsewhere. On all but one occasion when I was in London, I stayed at the Strand Palace, which was within reasonable walking distance of attractions in both the City and Westminster, something which the Russell-Square hotels can not claim! Having previously mentioned the Proms here, I regret that you had to miss out on them as well, as I will have to do if this new BBC IPlayer will not let me listen to archived Proms, as it regretably is doing currently.
I know that you have often mentioned your sister in this series, and now our mutual contact tells us that was her choir that was making this journey. It would thus appear that you were along in a support capacity, though doubtless a welcome one, though hopefully I am not missing something, i.e., that you also sing in that choir!
Hoping, as usual, that this finds you well, and indeed safely home,
J. V.
p.s. From all accounts, it would appear that we got _QUITE_ a defensive lineman in Mr. Taylor, two of ours having gone down with season-ending injuries on the first day of camp (one wonders if this has anything to do with deficiencies on the part of our longtime Strength and Conditioning Coach).
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