Last Days of London

2-20-06

Well, we never made it back to Oxford. Too much to do and too little energy to do it (since we're both still sick). We did go out with some friends to a nice Italian restaurant in Kensington right near Notting Hill.

The night before that Paul and I attended the play A Man For All Seasons at the (Royal Theater on Haymarket Street); an exceptional true story on the final years of Thomas Moore. After the play I went out on my own while Paul got some rest at the hotel. It was very enjoyable just walking around Piccadilly Circus and Lester Square observing people. I actually met some girls that promised to show Paul and I all of the touristy London sites on Sunday, but they never ended up contacting us... How appropriate that it rained all the next day. Oh, well. No London girlfriends to write to I guess. But I digress.
We did find some cool sites on our own such as; Big Ben, the London Eye and Westminster Abbey. We actually went into the Abbey and listened to an organ recital of JS Bach played by Ian Keatley. That was an awesome experience. What a beautiful structure to play music in! And there were graves of honored citizens buried all over the room that dated back hundreds of years!

To prove that our itinerary is loose during our travels we have already bumped our visit to Scotland to the very beginning of next month as we've stayed extra days in London and need to be in Ireland to claim our rented home on the 21st. We'll just come back to Scotland for a few days after we're settled down in Ireland.

By the time most of you have read this we'll have hopped onto the Tube to visit Stonehenge and will have returned to London in time to catch a theatrical showing of Embers starring Jeremy Irons. The play is being shown at the Duke of York's where Peter Pan premiered over 100 years ago. Not a bad way to finish up our stay in this great city.

Cheers.