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Below follows a brief account of my trip, including a few links to some pictures. Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this narration.
Friday, Nov. 24:
Morning: Bus tour from Heathrow to the Tavistock Hotel (near the British
Museum) featuring stops at the Royal Albert Hall and Westminster Abbey.
Afternoon: Tube trip to Tower Hill (with detours). Lunch there.
Evening:" Jack the Ripper Walking Tour" starting at Tower Hill.
Saturday, Nov. 25:
Morning: British Museum
Afternoon: Rode the #7 Double-Decker Bus to Portobello Road Market
(and back).
Back to the British Museum. The stranger who photographed me with the
now controversial Elgin Marbles
said, "Say 'Lord Elgin'" and so I did. Then I added, "I'll have to show
that to my Greek friend." Hi, Spuro!
Evening: Tube to St. Paul's Cathedral. Walked around it until time
for the "Ghosts" walking tour.
Sunday, Nov. 26:
Morning: Tube to Victoria Station to enquire re. train fares.
Then to Natural History Museum (dinosaurs etc.).
Afternoon/Evening: Walked along Kensington, Knightsbridge, Shaftesbury etc.
back to my hotel. To bed early.
Monday, Nov. 27:
Morning: Up early. Tube to Victoria Station. Train to East Sussex.
Herstmonceux Castle. ("Cair Paravel" in the
BBC's production of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair")
By the entrance. Lunch in a cafe in Polegate.
Afternoon: Train back to London. Tube to Piccadilly Circus to exchange
my voucher for a theatre ticket. Back to hotel.
Evening: "La Cava" at the Piccadilly Theatre: interesting staging,
predictable story, eminently forgettable music -- but a new
experience. Fire trucks in the narrow street afterwards. Walked around
Piccadilly Circus.
Tuesday, Nov. 28:
Morning: Tube to
Westminster.
Crossed Westminster Bridge to view the
"Millennium Wheel" (The British Airways London
Eye).
Then to Marylebone for "Beatles Walking Tour".
Crossed Abbey Road (barefoot).
The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album cover. Bought and ate roast chestnuts
from vendor near British Museum.
Back at hotel opened camera prematurely. Back to
cross Abbey Road (barefoot) again. Westminster
again.
Evening: Tube to Covent Garden. Walked around "Theatre Land" and the
Embankment and to Piccadilly Circus again.
Wednesday, Nov. 29:
Morning: Tube to St. James's Park. Toured Westminster Abbey. Thought
I was shortchanged there by 5 pounds. (I wasn't). Walked along
Horse Guards Road to Trafalgar Square and
then to Buckingham Palace via Pall Mall and the Mall.
Actually, on second thought, I think it must have been Whitehall along which I walked to Trafalgar Square.
Afternoon: St. James's Park. Emailed people from Canada House.
Trafalgar Square. Tube from Piccadilly Circus to
Leicester Square. Tube to North Greenwich to look at the Schmillennium Dome. Tube
back to the British Museum.
Evening: New Bond St. Walked past the shop where Elton John was
selling off some of his extra clothes in his third "Out of the Closet" sale.
Fish 'n' chips on Oxford St. To Notting Hill, but I didn't know what to
look for. (Haven't seen the movie.)
Thursday, Nov. 30:
Morning: Walked around Tavistock Square. Bus to Heathrow. Lunch at
Pret a Manger.
Afternoon: Plane departed more or less on time at 14:45.
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