We caught the tube over to Camden and wandered around
Yep, bet you're all going to be singing that for the rest of the day now.
These last few days have been dedicated to all things touristy as we've played host to Andrew, our flatmate from Canberra. We spent much of yesterday at the Tower of London, seeing the The Beauchamp and Bloody Towers where Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his A Historie of the World and the young Princes Edward and Richard were allegedly murdered, as well as the tower where various Queens and Queens-to-be were imprisoned and the Chapel where two of them were later buried.
And prompting the title of this post, we met up with friends of Andrew's in Camden for dinner and to catch the Germany-Italy game, which had a disappointing but amazing final few minutes (Italy scored twice in the final two minutes of extra time; it had been 0-0 until then).
Until this week we've done relatively little sight-seeing and now that I start work next week I think I'm hooked. Tomorrow we're going to evensong at St Paul's Cathedral, which is in remembrance of those lost in the bombings 7 July last year, and we'll be able to explore the church and see the effigy of John Donne, one time Dean of St Pauls and poet extraordinaire.
In Australian news, it's good to see the State of Origin trophy return to the better team after four long years. Hooray, Queensland!
These last few days have been dedicated to all things touristy as we've played host to Andrew, our flatmate from Canberra. We spent much of yesterday at the Tower of London, seeing the The Beauchamp and Bloody Towers where Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his A Historie of the World and the young Princes Edward and Richard were allegedly murdered, as well as the tower where various Queens and Queens-to-be were imprisoned and the Chapel where two of them were later buried.
And prompting the title of this post, we met up with friends of Andrew's in Camden for dinner and to catch the Germany-Italy game, which had a disappointing but amazing final few minutes (Italy scored twice in the final two minutes of extra time; it had been 0-0 until then).
Until this week we've done relatively little sight-seeing and now that I start work next week I think I'm hooked. Tomorrow we're going to evensong at St Paul's Cathedral, which is in remembrance of those lost in the bombings 7 July last year, and we'll be able to explore the church and see the effigy of John Donne, one time Dean of St Pauls and poet extraordinaire.
In Australian news, it's good to see the State of Origin trophy return to the better team after four long years. Hooray, Queensland!
posted by Margie at 11:20 am
3 Comments:
Hooray for Queensland! We definately deserved to win State of Origin! It was a very exciting game - even watching it in Melbourne with melbournites who had a somewhat limited understanding about what was happening.
This is the first year in a long time I haven't seen any of the games :(
But still the Queenslander in me comes out and I got all angsty at the ref!
Next year we'll have to get ourselves organised enough to get to a Walkabout.
You should have seen me getting angsty at the ref - in particular the video ref. Two very, very bad calls! The score on the last one should have been another 8 points difference (with them 4 down and us 4 up). I shouldn't get started... makes me so angry!
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