While walking through the park just by Buckingham Palace Sydney and I were passed by something like 50 apple-cheeked rugby boys out for a run.
We did go to Harrods very quickly last night. After passing hurriedly through the handbag section we bought fruit, cheese, tea, and fantastic little Arabic pastries with pistachios and cashews in them. Yum.
We also saw Cirque du Soleil perform last night. Our feet had had enough walking (seriously, we’re still recovering today) and we enjoyed watching somebody else on their feet. Some really fantastic stunts, I have to say. Great fun.
We walked through Kensington Gardens (where Sydney made use of the zoom on our camera to take pictures of birds we couldn’t identify) and tried to look nonchalant while walking past Virginia Woolf’s home nearby.
About the walking: though we think we’ve mastered the underground (the trains were very clean, easy to find, etc.), we still did quite a bit of walking yesterday, including the nearly 500 steps it takes to reach the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Imagine a gigantic church, and then imagine a tiny spire at the top of the highest dome in that church, and then imagine some very tiny people peering out from a balcony at the top of that spire. That’s us. It gave us a great view!
Erin
Alan Schmierer
Harrods – you should have seen the ghost of Princess Diana (apparently one of her favorite shopping places at one time).
What – no picture of Virginia Woolf’s house???!!!
Are you kidding? I was totally embarrassed to be walking by the house at all, but I wanted to do it despite my sense of being so ‘touristy.’ But it was really great to get a sense of her neighborhood–really! I mean, she’s just one block off the really lovely Kensington Gardens, which she writes about frequently in her memoirs.