There have been some notable experiences here in London. Here they are:
1. Dinner with Ally and two of our chums, Gen Blanch and Penny McCann. We hoiked off to a Georgian restaurant near Ally’s joint and had a lovely meal. Gen is working in London and has scored a spot in the London Marathon next Sunday. Penny is doing some work in London, but is based in Sydney. It was a great, fun night.
On the way home to Ally’s joint we saw this fox:
Amazing, eh?
2. We had never done it before, but our tour of Westminster Abbey was wonderful. Grandure, graves, nooks, crannies, crosses, more graves and crannies and above all, history.
3. St Martin in the Fields
We were happily plodding past this church when I decided to pop my head in the door. Lo and behold there was a lunchtime concert just starting! How wonderful! An expert set of singers punched out some beautiful pieces, introduced by the Vicar dressed in his black, Vicar’s garb with a tweed jacket over the top. Never mind …. The set finished with ‘When the Saints go Marching In’, which sounds naff, but was a lovely arrangement.
4. Today we went to the Churchill War Rooms, which was capital ‘I’ Interesting. The displays brought the whole endeavor of war and how to respond to it to life. It wasn’t really that long ago.
If youse are ever in London, youse all must GO to the War Rooms!
Toodles!
London is full of never-ending surprises isn't it? I thought the war rooms were fascinating....and if I remember rightly we were headed for somewhere else which was closed and ended up there as a last resort! So with minimal enthusiasm I entered the war rooms and firstly realised how little I know about WWII, and secondly how massive numbers of unsuspecting defence personnel are moved around like pieces on a monopoly board, with little concern for their lives. The logistics of cramming lots of people underground so they can think clearly and not be bombed was fascinating. I always like to know a) how they were fed and b) where did they go to the toilet? Very practical that's me!
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