The Whole Story

To amplify a little... we did the Buckingham Palace thing, the Parliament thing, the Trafalgar Sq thing, the Piccadilly Circus thing, the Big Ben thing and then we walked the length of Charing Cross Road stopping in a million book stores. Today we did the complete Tower of London thing. It took four hours and every minute was a revelation. There is something about sitting quietly in a chapel that has been in use for a thousand years, 20 feet from the crypt of Ann Boleyn and various other hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered, burned at the stake figures from history that... well... makes you just fully appreciate the comings and goings of all of us. Those Brits really were inventive when it came to killing a person. I particularly liked reading the pre-execution wall scratchings of the prisoners in the many tower rooms. And then hustled right on down to Starbucks on the Thames to enjoy being alive.