The last weekend in London has been rather a blur of activity - meeting up with Mary Thoreau, the British Museum, the Lion King, and sung Latin High Mass a Westminster Cathedral - whew!!!!!
Mary (my co-author for the two books is running a language school in Spain and was in London for a conference. We met up for gossip and coffee before I hit the British Museum with K&D. We did the "Lonely Planet five must-see sights" which of course only scratches the surface, but gave us a great taster, as we oooohed at the Elgin Marbles, aaahed at the mummy collection, whizzed by the Rosetta Stone, zoomed down to the Benin Bronzes in the basement, and were suitably impressed by the splendid dome of the Reading Room.
The Lion King was a stuning performance with top-calibre performances, music, costumes and enchanting animals. The Hyenas were probably my favourite, but a surprising beautiful acrobatic ballet segment was a close second. Thank you Father Christmas and K&D for the ticket.
A change of pace for the morning saw us absorbing the beautiful choral music at Westminster Cathedral, and dredging up the forgotten memories of singing the Pater Noster along with the little postcard choir boys.
Tomorrow is dealing with the Tube strike to make my way to Gatwick and on to Milano...... Ciao .........
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Nothing like a taster of London to give you great reason to return-broke my glasses and 48 hr to fix-what a handicap -couldnt even see to do housework-wd l;ove to have been at Westmimster -a great alternative to St Igs- luv marg
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