Thinking Out Loud
Just a few miles outside of London is what is reputed to be Henry VIII’s favorite palace: Hampton Court. He would take a barge down the Thames from London. The palace originally belonged to Cardinal Woolsey, Henry’s Lord Chamberlain. When Woolsey failed to obtain Henry’s divorce from his first queen, Katherine of Aragon, he fell [...]
We started out a little earlier today. Again rode a bus and the Picadilly Tube Line into London. Got off at Picadilly Circus and made our way to Trafalgar Square. Along the way, we stopped into St. Martin’s in the Field to check on the Cafe in the Crypt and check out the church and [...]
I’m really too tired to post, but I don’t want to forget…my parents and I started our two-week tour today. We had wonderful English porridge for breakfast then headed to downtown London from our hotel near the airport. We managed to navigate public transportation, first a bus, then the tube, to get to Waterloo station. [...]