We lunched at Michie Tavern where the modern restaurant still serves the kind of food that you might have eaten at the tavern if you were traveling two hundred years ago. Afterwards we toured the tavern and learned more about living and traveling in the early days of our nation. Even got to dance a Virginia Reel and play an old tavern game.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.
The two of us have long been fascinated with the history of canals and their role in the history of transportation, industrialization, and more recently recreation. This stay in London has given us new opportunities to explore and learn more about how canals contributed to the growth of this great city and how they are being used and preserved today.
It was a most educational visit to the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery at Trafalgar Square in Central London. We were intrigued with the contemporary approach to presenting British History.
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