Mom and I are off to foreign parts. We flew from San Antonio on Wednesday afternoon and arrived in London just before noon Thursday. After dragging our cold weather laden luggage up and down a bunch of tube station staircases and a few blocks through South Kensington we checked into our hotel and then set out into the city. We stopped and looked at Buckingham Palace and then walked through St. James park and over to Westminster. We managed to get into the abbey about 10 minutes before they closed the tour entrance for the day so we had about an hour to walk around inside. Unfortunately they don’t allow pictures inside but it’s very pretty inside. The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is moving in a quiet way.
After leaving there we walked along the south bank of the Thames, up to St. Paul’s and then stopped for dinner before heading home. I’ve uploaded a few of the pictures that turned out ok both at my usual place and on my new flickr account if anyone wants to have a look.
Tomorrow the plan is to get breakfast early-ish, spend the morning and early afternoon at the British Museum and then go see Cirque du Soleil at Albert Hall in the evening. Then we get up bright and early on Saturday morning, go back out to the airport and get on the plane for Norway. We do immigration in Oslo and the connect to Bergen where we get on our Northern Lights cruise. It’s 11 days from Bergen to Kirkenes and back. Hopefully the sky cooperates enough to get some decent pictures of that.
http://thwartedagain.com/zenphoto/albums/norway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thwartedagain/