Thinking of London These Days

It is windy and dreary the last couple of days, but the temperature is not unpleasant. Perhaps that is why my mind drifts back to my days in London just 7 months ago.

Embankment Station

St. Paul's Cathedral across the Thames

I remember walking the narrow brick streets to the River Thames on the days I went exploring. I went alone and I enjoyed just walking and visiting such places as the Borough Market and Millennium Walk Bridge with the St. Paul's Cathedral dome reaching for the sky as you made your way across. I visited the Clink Prison museum which was fascinating and creepy all at the same time. I found out that I loved Costa Coffee far better than Starbucks and a Vanilla Latte and a blueberry muffin on my quiet days off became a routine.

The tube was a new experience all together and I confess that I nearly fell down when the train took off, but thankfully that only happened once. Camden Town market was a bustle of activity and I admit that I was overwhelmed at my first visit. On my second visit I quickly became a shopper and even bargained my way to a good deal....unintentional, buy hey, it worked.

Stonehenge

A Roman Bath

Stonehenge and Bath were the most amazing places. Ancient stones on both counts laid by people now lost to history and yet the stones stand up against the test of time and the movements of civilizations. From the grassy English country side stand stones that look as though they were dropped upon the earth from on high. Foreign they look and yet they have out lasted memory. Bath stands in homage to a once great and ancient empire that is now remembered in books and monuments and museums. Just a memory, but I will never forget those places.

My very first live musical was in London and just happened to be Wicked. Even from my high vantage point I was blown away by the magic that is musical theatre. "Defying Gravity" was nothing short of amazing and the Emerald City was simply fantastic. In the Globe Theatre my sides were splitting in laughter as Shakespeare's "All's Well that End's Well" and I had the full Shakespeare experience by be a measly groundling with hurting legs- but I don't regret one moment.

The Globe Theatre