London Day 3
Today we slept in a bit, got a late breakfast at the
hotel and headed to the TKTS booth to get some more
half-price play tickets. We had lunch near Piccadilly
Circus. We went back to the hotel for a power nap so
we would stay awake during the whole play. We decided
to see a comedy called “Stones in His Pockets” tonight.
There were two actors that played a total of 14 parts.
We thought they did an excellent job – even on the women’s
parts. Sometimes it was a little hard to understand them
since half the parts they played were Irishmen. We have
a list of other plays we want to see when we come back
to London. We relearned that matinees are usually on
Wednesdays or Thursdays and Saturdays. That way you
can see 2 plays in one day!
Tonight we had dinner at the Cafe Flo with a French
cuisine. (to get ready for France tomorrow). We will
be taking the Eurostar high speed train through the
Chunnel tomorrow and should be in Paris by 2:30pm. From
looking at ads in the Underground I now realize that it
would have been cheaper to fly. Oh well – people say
this is a do it at least once experience.
We have been reading more about the barge trip and now
realize that we don’t start in Paris. We will meet
at the Hotel Regina (It was featured in the Bourne
Identity – if you saw that movie) and then take a bus
to St. Florentin south of Paris, and then each day we
go to these successive towns, Tonnerre, Tanlay, Ancy le Franc,
Ravieres, Montbard. From Montbard we take a bus back
to Paris. As near as I can tell the rivers we will be
on are the Armance, Armacon, Brenne, and Yonne.
According to the literature these are all in the
Northern Burgundy section of France and just south of Paris.
Hope all is well with all of you!
kws
Since we had dinner at the Porterhouse last night we thought it
fitting to send a picture of Salisbury. Janet in front of Cafe Flo!