The question we are most often asked when we mention that we are planning to go on a cruise is “Where are you going?” Our answer is “It doesn’t matter to us, we just know we will enjoy the friends that we are going with.” Today’s delights included exploring the ship with friends, dancing at the captain’s cocktail party, dressing up for the formal dinner, and dancing, dancing, dancing, until it was time to go climb into our bunk with our cute little towel critter.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
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