London is Fabulous

I'm not sure my legs know what happened to them. We walked The City yesterday looking at Christopher Wren churches and buildings, the Bank of England, the Guildhall of the City of London, and other assorted monuments. We found the Lutheran Church of St Agnes and St Anne, which happened to be having a noon concert of a Bach Cantata. We grabbed a sandwich and cup of soup and ate there. Fabululous.

Today we spent a few hours at the Tate Modern, maybe the best contemporary art museum I have every seen. This evening we were at a Christmas concert benefit for the Blue Cross, like the Red Cross for animals. It was held at St Peter's Eaton Square, one of the ritzyest neighborhoods in London. My daughter Rachel sent us there because Anthony Stewart Head, also known as Giles on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was doing one of the readings. She is quite the fan, and when she heard I was going to London, she checked via the internet for an ASH sighting for me. The concert was quite nice, and we enjoyed it- and getting to know a different part of town. It was quite a change from our ethnically diverse Portabello Road neighborhood with all its ethnic restaurants.

Tomorrow is a river day, with a trip down to Greenwich to stand on 0' longitude and then a chance to wander Westminster Abbey before a Carols by Candelight concert at St Martin in the Fields. If there's time, I still want to see more paintings at the Tate with all the Turners. But we are finding that time flies much faster than we expect. I think that's the sign of having a very good time.