We are back in London now dropped off the car, surviving a hectic week of driving country lanes where the locals drive like they are on a 4 lane freeway, and you just hold your breath and hope you don’t careen into the ditch, mirrors barely clearing as they pass. The drive through the countryside is amazing however, the Cotswolds are a pastoral scene that has not changed in generations. Every little village you pass beckons with cozy pubs and Inns. Maybe a pint or two would of allayed my driving paranoia but maybe not such a good idea. So back in London, staying at a hipster hotel Citizen M on the South bankside by the Thames. I thought it would up my hipster cred but sadly I feel my age, as the room is more like a luxury accommodation that is if you were fly in a private cabin an Air Emirates AirBus A380! I have to crawl over Amy to get into bed, the shower/toilet is very much like an airplane enclosure out in the room and our luggage looks out of scale like we woke up in Gullivers travels. So that and the fact that I cannot grow a pony tail adds up to my oldster cred. Yesterday afternoon we went to the reconstructed Globe theatre to see King Lear and the performance did not disappoint. The King himself played with such animation that the audience was sniffling at times, me too. This great tragedy of Shakespeare, one of his best, really delves into fundamental human virtues and vices. Hint the vices do not prevail unlike many modern stories. Amy, pictured below got a great bowl of her very favorite squash soup. Pictures are of the Globe Theatre, an A380 passing over it, and the Thames with St Paul in the background. Today we go the St. Paul, The Tate Modern, also in a picture below, and the Tower of London, if we can fit it all in. Unfortunately there has been another terrorism incident by these venal cowards, so the terror alert has gone from severe to critical, so there will be an enhanced military and police presence today. Londoners carry on, as any great city like this would, but you cannot ignore the sense of vulnerability these assholes create.
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Looks like a fun day! I guess citizenM expects you won’t be in the room much 😁
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We will be in London in a week! We will be mostly hanging out near the financial/insurance district (buildings such as the Gherkin, The Shard, The Cheese Grater and The Walki-Talki – The English architects like to design their high-rise buildings to look like common objects!) Glad you are getting to see Tower of London. Quite a chilling true tale. The soup and the big chunk of bread looks yummy!
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