Monday morning and it's time to pack up and return the hire car to Avis and get ourselves off to our Hotel at Lancaster Gate. It turns out the toughest part of all that was finding the Avis place at Westfield Shepherds Bush, it is huge!
The London Elizabeth Hotel is brilliantly located across the road from Hyde Park/ Kensington Gardens and we have a comfy room. Time permits us to visit Wippell's in Westminster where we fine tune our designs, fabrics and other details for the green set of vestments for Albert Park. Ray also purchases for himself a couple of items. We leave Wippell's the staff are all smiles and our best friends!
The London Elizabeth Hotel is brilliantly located across the road from Hyde Park/ Kensington Gardens and we have a comfy room. Time permits us to visit Wippell's in Westminster where we fine tune our designs, fabrics and other details for the green set of vestments for Albert Park. Ray also purchases for himself a couple of items. We leave Wippell's the staff are all smiles and our best friends!
Next stop Shakespeare, unfortunately we are a week out of season for a command performance so we settle for the tour of the Globe Theatre and the audio tour of the theatre museum. We find them both very worthwhile but we are in need for a good sit down and a drink as soon as possible. Behold The Swan pub ( yes yet another 'Swan Pub') next door a haven for sore feet. We enjoy their refreshments overlooking The Thames and the dome of St Pauls not far away.
Tuesday is Ray's first official appointment with a senior staff member of the Diocese of London. We also are designated to purchase Half Price Tix for one of the shows tonight at Leicester Square. We decide on The 39 Steps and hope the publicity around the word 'hilarious' is accurate.
Glen has a lunch appointment at Hyde Park with an old friend, Brian, from young teenage days in Thornbury. Brian travels to London from Brighton and they enjoy catching up on the past 40 years. Brian has been an Anglican priest serving in the UK in various capacities all those years. He is now semi retired. Ray joins us for coffee at the Lido overlooking The Serpentine in Hyde Park later in the afternoon.
We meet Steve and Eryn for a Spanish tapas meal before the show at the Criterion in the evening. The 39 Steps IS hilarious! Lots of fun. We exit the theatre to pouring rain but it's only a matter of minutes and we are whisked home via a couple of tube stops.
By popular request above are some samples of Ray's artwork this holiday.
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