Cheerio!
Cheers from London! Our second day here was pretty wonderful. We started our morning at Westminster Abbey for the Easter service. It was phenomenal. Nevermind that we sat next to Chaucer's grave and on TOP of Tennyson's. It was really incredibly cool to sing "Christ our Lord is risen today..." with the multitudes. Not bad for an Easter Sunday.
After the service we began what turned into a day-long walk around London. The day was amazingly gorgeous, none of the London rain for which I have been carrying an umbrella around (just in case!). Instead we had sunshine and flowers. We spent the early afternoon picnicking (we're cheap travelers, esp. at the current exchange rate!) and then strolling through St. James's Park (I kept hearing Sir William Lucas in my head). After a visit to the Queen--or at least the Queen's house--we went to the Winston Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.
This museum was incredible. It was the one thing I wanted to do while we were here, having missed it when I was here in 2000. The Imperial War Cabinet ran the British resistence during the Battle of Britain down in these secret rooms. On V-J day, they turned off the lights for the first time in 6 years and walked out, leaving them just as they were then. Also, the Churchill Museum (part of the War Rooms) was opened in 2005 and is amazing. It was well worth the 11 quid.
We spent the rest of the evening walking along the Thames and went to a pub I'd really liked by St. Paul's Cathedral. Seven years has not been very good to the fish and chips there.
Yesteray we did the British Museum, complete with the Rosetta Stone and some of my favorite Greek statues. After we dragged ourselves around until the museum closed, we had a delightful dinner with my dear friend Nicole (now a Londoner) and her friend Claire...and then remembered to take a picture after we'd parted ways!
Tomorrow we're off to Oxford to retrace old steps...and it turns out you can forget a lot in seven years, so I'm brushing up by flipping through the "Cheeky Guide to Oxford." And practically falling asleep...
After the service we began what turned into a day-long walk around London. The day was amazingly gorgeous, none of the London rain for which I have been carrying an umbrella around (just in case!). Instead we had sunshine and flowers. We spent the early afternoon picnicking (we're cheap travelers, esp. at the current exchange rate!) and then strolling through St. James's Park (I kept hearing Sir William Lucas in my head). After a visit to the Queen--or at least the Queen's house--we went to the Winston Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.
This museum was incredible. It was the one thing I wanted to do while we were here, having missed it when I was here in 2000. The Imperial War Cabinet ran the British resistence during the Battle of Britain down in these secret rooms. On V-J day, they turned off the lights for the first time in 6 years and walked out, leaving them just as they were then. Also, the Churchill Museum (part of the War Rooms) was opened in 2005 and is amazing. It was well worth the 11 quid.
We spent the rest of the evening walking along the Thames and went to a pub I'd really liked by St. Paul's Cathedral. Seven years has not been very good to the fish and chips there.
Yesteray we did the British Museum, complete with the Rosetta Stone and some of my favorite Greek statues. After we dragged ourselves around until the museum closed, we had a delightful dinner with my dear friend Nicole (now a Londoner) and her friend Claire...and then remembered to take a picture after we'd parted ways!
Tomorrow we're off to Oxford to retrace old steps...and it turns out you can forget a lot in seven years, so I'm brushing up by flipping through the "Cheeky Guide to Oxford." And practically falling asleep...
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