On the Move in London
On the Move in London
To Walk, or not to Walk Ay there's the point
To sleep, to English breakfast at my hotel, is that
all?"
To walk, bus, tube, London BA EYE ride,
ay happily there I went today
For in the tour of London, where I wander
and borne before an everlasting tour guide
From whence no underground passenger ever returned
The undiscovered city, at where I visit
The happy smile and the lazy be damned
For thjs, the joy-filled day I had as follows...
Left my hotel at 6:30 to walk until 7:00 when they
start serving breakfast. After I got a little ways
from the hotel near the edge of Hyde Park, largest
open area in the entire Metro London area I decided
breakfast wasn't necessary until later.
Just a couple exercise walkers and joggers and one
bicycler and me wandered through Hyde Park this
morning. I wandered through the park to I reached the
Serpentine Lake and routed around it and its ducks,
geese and swans to travel towards
Buckingham Palace and the Thames.
I wandered through a mix of streets passing a mix of
"key gated" parks, parks accessible only by people who
have keys (live around the park). Later in the day I
saw Sean Connery's house and his "gated park".
Everywhere you look as you walk through the parks in
London are vast decorative areas of very colorful
flower beds.
The Palace was quiet at 7:15, no guards to change. No
tourists to queue up behind, just a few cars to avoid
when crossing the vast streets around it.
Down the trail at the edge of the beautiful waterway
perpendicular from the Palace leading towards the
Thames and my target for the morning....British
Airways EYE OF LONDON, the world's largest ferriswheel
with cars that 30 or more people can standup in that
rise several floors into the air over the Thames with
complete views reaching 30 or more miles in all
directions.
From the EYE it was time to jump on the BIG BUS, a
system of tour busses running most of the daylight
hours covering most key points in London. I rode the
RED line. Then the GREEN seeing all the arches,
squares, palaces, Tower of London (prision), Tower
Bridge. Then it was time to jump off and get on a
boat to tour the Thames and see the waterfronts on
both sides of the river with its mixture of very old
and very contemporary buildings: highly decorative,
covered with sculptures and carved stone details to
boxes of concrete, boxes of glass, to free form
buildings of metal or glass to the stucco and wood
GLOBE Theatre...the result of the hard promotion work
of American Director and actor, Sam Wannamaker and
many, many, many others.
Back on the BIG BUS to see more.
Then off tyo visit the DALI exhib it and a Picasso
exhibit.
Lumch at a "noodle shop"....oh well not everything was
fantastic today. onions, peppers, etc.
Back to stroll to the Globe to find out that a
performance was on and the next tour would be at 4:30.
So off to climb and tour the Tower Bridge adding
another bridge to my list this year...
Golden Gate, bridges in St. Paul, the Coat Hanger in
Sydney, bridges over the Bosphoorus and nearly every
other city I have been in this summer.
Back to the Globe.
A truly fabulous exhibit surrounded the theatre
followed by a visit to the truly Elizabethian theatre
like Bill's plays would have been in before.
Last night I went to see Les Miserables at The Palace.
fabulous, wonderful, great, highly creative, fun,
dramatic....fill in your own adjectives or
superlatives
Tonight in a couple minutes it is off to the Criterian
Theatre to see REDUCED SHAKESPEARE a comedy that
includes all of his plays in one play.
Off to Paris by Euro Star in the morning....the tunnel
under the English Channel.
Wandering Alan
To Walk, or not to Walk Ay there's the point
To sleep, to English breakfast at my hotel, is that
all?"
To walk, bus, tube, London BA EYE ride,
ay happily there I went today
For in the tour of London, where I wander
and borne before an everlasting tour guide
From whence no underground passenger ever returned
The undiscovered city, at where I visit
The happy smile and the lazy be damned
For thjs, the joy-filled day I had as follows...
Left my hotel at 6:30 to walk until 7:00 when they
start serving breakfast. After I got a little ways
from the hotel near the edge of Hyde Park, largest
open area in the entire Metro London area I decided
breakfast wasn't necessary until later.
Just a couple exercise walkers and joggers and one
bicycler and me wandered through Hyde Park this
morning. I wandered through the park to I reached the
Serpentine Lake and routed around it and its ducks,
geese and swans to travel towards
Buckingham Palace and the Thames.
I wandered through a mix of streets passing a mix of
"key gated" parks, parks accessible only by people who
have keys (live around the park). Later in the day I
saw Sean Connery's house and his "gated park".
Everywhere you look as you walk through the parks in
London are vast decorative areas of very colorful
flower beds.
The Palace was quiet at 7:15, no guards to change. No
tourists to queue up behind, just a few cars to avoid
when crossing the vast streets around it.
Down the trail at the edge of the beautiful waterway
perpendicular from the Palace leading towards the
Thames and my target for the morning....British
Airways EYE OF LONDON, the world's largest ferriswheel
with cars that 30 or more people can standup in that
rise several floors into the air over the Thames with
complete views reaching 30 or more miles in all
directions.
From the EYE it was time to jump on the BIG BUS, a
system of tour busses running most of the daylight
hours covering most key points in London. I rode the
RED line. Then the GREEN seeing all the arches,
squares, palaces, Tower of London (prision), Tower
Bridge. Then it was time to jump off and get on a
boat to tour the Thames and see the waterfronts on
both sides of the river with its mixture of very old
and very contemporary buildings: highly decorative,
covered with sculptures and carved stone details to
boxes of concrete, boxes of glass, to free form
buildings of metal or glass to the stucco and wood
GLOBE Theatre...the result of the hard promotion work
of American Director and actor, Sam Wannamaker and
many, many, many others.
Back on the BIG BUS to see more.
Then off tyo visit the DALI exhib it and a Picasso
exhibit.
Lumch at a "noodle shop"....oh well not everything was
fantastic today. onions, peppers, etc.
Back to stroll to the Globe to find out that a
performance was on and the next tour would be at 4:30.
So off to climb and tour the Tower Bridge adding
another bridge to my list this year...
Golden Gate, bridges in St. Paul, the Coat Hanger in
Sydney, bridges over the Bosphoorus and nearly every
other city I have been in this summer.
Back to the Globe.
A truly fabulous exhibit surrounded the theatre
followed by a visit to the truly Elizabethian theatre
like Bill's plays would have been in before.
Last night I went to see Les Miserables at The Palace.
fabulous, wonderful, great, highly creative, fun,
dramatic....fill in your own adjectives or
superlatives
Tonight in a couple minutes it is off to the Criterian
Theatre to see REDUCED SHAKESPEARE a comedy that
includes all of his plays in one play.
Off to Paris by Euro Star in the morning....the tunnel
under the English Channel.
Wandering Alan
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