It's a real bummer, but I've had to go back to work. Sigh. And while Sharon and Karl were out sight-seeing and having fun. It wasn't fair....!But on the saturday before last, we headed out to Westminster Abbey. It's quite amazing architecturally - and heaps of famous people are buried there. I saw the grave of Mary Queen of Scots (that's the one I can remember!), and I walked over the graves of Charles Darwin, Chaucer, and Dickens. Freaky to think they were beneath. We also saw the chair used for all coronations since the 1300's (a wooden chair 700 years old!).
That night we went to the Tower of London after dark, feeling the chilly breeze off the Thames, to watch the Ceremony of the Keys - the nightly locking of the Tower. For me it was just as amazing the second time - I could watch it every night.
On tuesday I took the day off, and we went out to the O2 arena, this time to see something a few thousand years older than the coronation chair. We had tickets to see the Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharohs exhibition (hence the refence to the King!). I've been walking around London thinking things are old, but Tutankhamen was 3000 BC and the exhibition had things on show from his family, plus artifacts from his tomb. (I've walked past his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but didn't go in). There were so many beautiful things - including a folding wooden chair (we haven't thought of anything new), storage drawers, and one golden layer of his coffin. He was only 19 when he died, and they still don't know what killed him.
Afterwards, we caught the tube back into the city and got to take that flight on the London Eye! It was still overcast, but no rain or fog to spoil things. It's the 3rd time I've been up, and it never ceases to scare the crap out of me. But it's an amazing way to see the city. Pic on the left was taken not long after we took off, and on the right was coming down.
P.S. I have to credit Sharon with this blog title - I wish I'd thought of it myself!!
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