Driving Miss Karen

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London and Leaving the UK

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We needed a break from the unfamiliar. The UK really felt like a second home to us. We really enjoyed every nook and cranny and hope to return many times. We spent our last week in the London suburbs and Karen had a nice visit with her friend Tricia in London proper. It was weird to be there when the Queen died but we shared in their sadness like she was our queen. We did a smattering of things in and around London (Karen did more with Tricia) and also rested since we knew Africa and Asia were coming up next.

Westminster Abbey with people queuing to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth. The queues were sometimes more than 24 hours long but everyone handled it well. The end of an era.
Kew gardens was a short bus ride from our Airbnb so we visited. The gardens are huge and varied but the coolest things are the glass and iron hot houses for tropical plants. Since Kew is the royal garden, all the employees wore black armbands and we signed a condolence book.
Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese and works from all corners of the world can be seen like this statue of Ramses II
Part of the Acropolis in Athens. I believe recently the British are returning some of the items they took back to their original countries
We visited the British Museum again and were astounded again by the amount of stuff taken by the British from all over the world
Japanese armor
A statue from Easter Island
A brick mosaic of a lion from Babylon
Celtic gold torcs from Great Britain
The Rosetta stone, taken from the French after they stole it from the Egyptians
These green huts are actually cab driver shelters set up around 1875. Only cab drivers can eat inside but anyone can order food or coffee to go
St. Paul’s cathedral from the different perspective. New and old.
I did an “Unseen London” tour which was really good.
I went to see Wicked again. The singing was phenomenal but the British accent threw me off a bit. Tickets were cheap compared to Broadway in the U.S.
Sadly, I had my last sticky toffee pudding in the UK 🙁
Our next adventure awaits!!!

Jose

AKA Alfred

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