We started out our last day in London with a trip to Hyde park because Tim really wanted to see guys standing on soap boxes yelling stuff. After wandering around the huge park, we found Speaker's Corner only to see very little if any radical behavior. Tim was a little put out, but it was a nice stroll anyways.
Next we headed to the National Gallery which is filled with tons of famous art. Tim was a real trooper as I dragged him from one picture to another excited to see the stuff previously seen only in my textbooks. Tim did like the paintings by Michaelangelo and Raphael, but it was a good thing the museum was free or he may not have liked it.
Outside the National Gallery is Trafalgar Square with the huge monument to Nelson who conquered Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo. It was full of people waving signs and we soon caught on that it was some sort of communist rally. That was pretty entertaining and we stayed to watch the speakers scream about social injustice. Apparently Speaker's Corner wasn't a big enough venue for these guys.
After the we noticed the nervous faces on the many bobbies (police) around us, we decided to skedaddle off to find some lunch. My dad really wanted us to eat at a traditional British pub, so we wandered off until we found one. The pub we found had really good food, but lacked crazy drunk guys. I guess we came at the wrong time.
After the pub, we decided we needed a little religion so we headed to Westminster Abbey for their Evensong. It was a really cool program with a great boys choir. The lesson out of the Old Testament was pretty long, but the booming voice of the preacher kept Tim awake. Westminster was probably the most amazing of all the cathedrals we went in. Probably because it was so old and ornate, but their was so much going on in the interior. Every square inch of the walls was covered with monuments to dead English guys. I guess it is the ultimate who's who cemetery.
After Evensong, we tried to head to the Tate modern museum, but after getting a little lost, decided to head back to the hostel for an early night. After all we had a very early train ride the next morning and needed to pack as well. Kinda lame for our last night in London, but a good start for our next destination; Paris!
Hey it could be good that there weren't any crazy drunk guys at the pub.
ReplyDeletelove the tongue tim.. you handsome devil, you.
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