Heading home today. The journey has been terrific and I feel myself being fortunate to have had these experiences, visit special places, and see things that I have only ever wondered about. Matt and I are both looking forward to coming home to our familiar surroundings, familiar spaces and places and family and friends.
Last few days in London have been quite warm and it certainly brings all of the Londoner's out and about into the parks and along the banks of the River Thames. All of Great Britain becomes very excited when the weather turns warm.
Matt and I have been doing our own thing the last couple of days, Matt has been searching high and low for vinyl records for his collection, and I have been visiting more museums and galleries. Went to the National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery and the Tate Britain Gallery. Jodie, this is where the Lady of Shalott hangs.
Matt and I both visited the Imperial War Museum, it was a chronology of Great Britain's war efforts since WW1. The museum had a large focus on life in England during WW2 and a significant memorial exhibit on the holocaust and the millions that were murdered by Hitler and his Dogs of War, Death and Destruction. The holocaust memorial exhibition and its images are deeply and profoundly moving, and it is difficult for me to think that those atrocities occurred, on a daily basis, for years, and on an industrial scale!
On Friday night I went to the Royal Festival Hall to see the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The works that were performed where by Debussy, Lalo, Strauss, and the closing piece was Ravel's Bolero which is one of my favorite pieces of classical music that Peirson and I have listened to many times over the years. It was an incredible experience to be there, and to watch and listen those each one of those gifted individuals create something so beautiful.
See you all soon and thanks for following our blog.
Photos are of Londoner's enjoying the balmy weather at Trafalgar Square and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Matt and I managed to have a really good run in London from Earls Court to the Thames, finishing at Westminster. 1 hour and 7 minutes. I think both Matt and I are in better shape now than when we began the trip.
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