Just an update on school related stuff: I am now officially done with the RADA program, having received my "Shakespeare in Performance" diploma following our final showing of "Measure for Measure" last Tuesday. I'm going to miss Shakespeare, but there's lots of the UK left to explore.
It took us a while to find the route they had mapped out, because the first step was to pass underneath a "giant overpass" and head toward the Thames. After getting out of the tube, the chore was not finding the giant overpass, but getting around it. (They have a system of herding pedestrians in London via railings on the sidewalk, making it impossible to cross streets in places you might need to. It's worst when you're stuck on the street side of the railing.) Eventually, we crossed the road and happened upon the old copper-plated bridge crossing the Thames.
We made a right at the bridge and passed the riverside pubs and cottages. Some of it reminded me of Nantucket: the old homes covered in wisteria with small front garden gates. Rickety old houseboats lined the docks.
We also witnessed, in real time, the rising tides of the Thames, and were nearly caught by them. We climbed down from the docks to the rocky shore, out onto a peninsula, spotting a black swan cruising in the stream along the way. After about twenty minutes on the peninsula, we headed back to the docks, only to find the stream had started to approach on either side of us, and before our eyes, the peninsula became an island.
On our way back to the tube later in the evening, we had drinks at the White Lion pub, where we sat outside and watched a jazz band play the Flinstone's theme song. After a beer and a burger, we were ready to head home back to King's Cross.
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