Spent last night at a new campground in Pittsfield SF. Nice roomy level site in the woods! Excellent comfort station. No electricity. Mosquitoes. Thunderstorm. The big frustration was the lack of signage that led up a very narrow mountain road going the wrong way with nowhere to turn our rig around safely. Went back again this morning and still could not figure out how we should have known without already knowing. That’s the problem of not having been born a Massachusetts Yankee!
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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