The rain started Tuesday afternoon and has continued since. It makes for good sleeping with the sounds of rain on the metal roof. It’s made us thoughtful about when to just pop out to get something out of the T@B or the truck or when to use the hot tub but just now we saw a gorgeous sunset that is clearly a blessing of these days of misty rain! And of course the luscious green trees that envelope us here on the mountainside appreciate the slow soaking rains.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
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.
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