I'm enjoying doing the walking tourist thing here. Tuesday's walk was The Secrets & Splendours of St Paul's Cathedral, interesting it was. I continued wandering & ended up at the Guildhall, had a good look around the art gallery there.
Wednesday I went to the British Museum to meet up with a classmate from primary school 50 years ago! & to see the Pompeii Exhibition which was quite fascinating & also disturbing. So much death & destruction. Looked through sone of the Greek & Roman exhibitions too.
Today, Thursday, I joined a walk Royal London & the Changing of the Guard. You guessed it - Big Ben, the Palace, soldiers & horses! The traditional tourist bit. Karen talked me into it - blame her! I did get a couple of good photos though which will have to wait as they are on my phone, not my iPad. A really good one of statues of the Queen Mother & her husband King George as they were before his death. An untimely death, I learnt. George was the King in The King's Speech with the speech impediment. His doctors' advised him to smoke as a relaxation technique in hopes he would stutter less. He died of lung cancer! Unfortunately the sun hid, the rain started, the wind blew, & as soon as the walk was over I headed back to Karen's place to shelter & warm up. With a stop in a pub along the way for a Scotch & dry! The perfect thing for a 'turned lousy' day.
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