A British vacation (but I'm also going to Japan)

[rbjhan]

I heard previously you weren't allowed to take pictures inside St Paul's, luckily now the only restriction is during service only.






Mother was not very impressed.
She likes the ones we saw in Italy, Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano is her all-time favourite. Nothing can compare

 

[rbjhan]

There was a 2.30pm Crypt tour, last tour of the day.
So I quickly took some pictures and joined the tour, mother didn't want to walk the stairs - she decided to stay on the ground floor exploring on her own.

JW Turner


Sir Christopher Wren


1st Duke of Wellington


And ofc Nelson!


Our tour guide's personal favourite.
I find his reasoning impeccable, think about how many lives penicillin saved!

 

[rbjhan]

Out from the underground, up to the sky!

I used to love climbing up, sadly my knees are not good any more
So I only do it if I REALLY want to nowadays...

These stairs were not helping!


Stone Gallery, oooops almost lost my umbrella here.
It was so windy, I decided to not go up to the Golden Gallery.


The view's good enough, I decided

 

[rbjhan]

It was 376 stairs to the Stone Gallery, so over 700 round trip.
Yeah I was quite dead afterwards....

So I just sat there listening to the choir


We left about 4.30pm? Finally the rain stop!


Dinner at Gaucho near the Royal Opera House.
This was their pre-theatre menu.


Unlike mother, I love steaks (okay not the ANA version ).

 

[rbjhan]

Obviously we went to opera that night


£62 for a side seat in the stalls circle. (First row Grand Tier will set you back £250)


I didn't know before but there were standing tickets! The ones near us were £25 iirc.
I won't survive standing 3 hours like that but hey....


What did we see? Magic Flute.


Queen of the Night was my favourite

 

[rbjhan]

The opera finished close to 11pm.
Covent Garden/Soho was heaving！ I waited soem time till this tunnel was empty...


We decided to have some late night snack....KFC chicken popcorn was very disappointing though
We do it much better here.