Day one:
We woke up, changed hotels… to the Best Western that was centrally located next to Kent Park. Overall, that hotel was nicer anyway. I did learn in the process, though, that if you want a room for two people, but two separate beds, you have to call it a TWIN room, and that a DOUBLE room means one big bed (or at least big in Europe fashion).
We dropped our bags off lickedy split, and turned around to head for the National Gallery.
National gallery on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery,_London
There they have paintings ranging in years from 1200s to 1900s, including many paintings by Van Gogh and Monet. I saw Van Gogh’s sunflowers among other great works of art.
After that Maureen and I did a walking tour down the street- We saw the horse guards, Big Ben and the Parliament building, which is open to the public. We saw the outside of Westminster Abbey, then walked over to the London eye. The London eye is a huge Ferris wheel where you can look over the entire city, but it cost 15 Euros! (This is almost $30 US dollars for a fair ride.) We passed, but ran next door to look inside the Dali exhibition.
We took the tube to a place where we could check out cheap tickets for last minute seats at local and Broadway performances. Ina was dead set on seeing the ballet, Mark liked the idea of seeing Glengarry Glen Ross, and there were tons of other choices- Christian Slater playing Swimming with Sharks, Wicked (and we know how much I enjoyed that), among others.
Beer drinking at a Belgium restaurant- ate mussels, Maredsous, and Chimay Blue!
We woke up, changed hotels… to the Best Western that was centrally located next to Kent Park. Overall, that hotel was nicer anyway. I did learn in the process, though, that if you want a room for two people, but two separate beds, you have to call it a TWIN room, and that a DOUBLE room means one big bed (or at least big in Europe fashion).
We dropped our bags off lickedy split, and turned around to head for the National Gallery.
National gallery on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery,_London
There they have paintings ranging in years from 1200s to 1900s, including many paintings by Van Gogh and Monet. I saw Van Gogh’s sunflowers among other great works of art.
After that Maureen and I did a walking tour down the street- We saw the horse guards, Big Ben and the Parliament building, which is open to the public. We saw the outside of Westminster Abbey, then walked over to the London eye. The London eye is a huge Ferris wheel where you can look over the entire city, but it cost 15 Euros! (This is almost $30 US dollars for a fair ride.) We passed, but ran next door to look inside the Dali exhibition.
We took the tube to a place where we could check out cheap tickets for last minute seats at local and Broadway performances. Ina was dead set on seeing the ballet, Mark liked the idea of seeing Glengarry Glen Ross, and there were tons of other choices- Christian Slater playing Swimming with Sharks, Wicked (and we know how much I enjoyed that), among others.
Beer drinking at a Belgium restaurant- ate mussels, Maredsous, and Chimay Blue!
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