Some months ago we planned a few days in London staying with Richard and Nicola.
The highlight was going to be A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican theatre.
To start our first day we visited Abney Park cemetery. A fascinating place and quite eerie on a dull Wednesday morning.
Later in the day we made our way into the city to see the London Mithraeum. This roman relic has been restored in it’s original place which happens to be in the basement of the Bloomberg offices.
There was a brief reenactment of how it might have been 2,000 years ago. It was quite spooky.
In the evening we went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I think I’ve seen the play a couple of times but this has to be the funniest version I’ve ever seen.
It’s a comedy of course and the cast took a lot of pleasure in making it a laugh out loud event.
The Royal Shakespeare company, as the name suggests, know how to put on a Shakespeare play. This was no exception – a perfect evening.
The following day we caught a bus to Hackney Wick to meet up with Helène’s sister. She gave us a guided tour of what was the 2012 Olympic village and now a thriving community of apartments, restaurants and galleries.
Before we headed back to Lincolnshire on the Friday we had enough time to make our annual pilgrimage to Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum.
Amazing photographs which have taken skill, patience and some endurance.
At the end of our four day stay we headed for home from King’s Cross feeling culturally uplifted and satisfactorily exhausted. Our train ran to time and we arrived back at the car in Newark with 6 minutes to spare on our parking time. Timed to perfection.
