Monday, February 19, 2007

In the spirit of catching up I thought i would continue with the week that was. Last week was the half term break for lots of London schools, the rest are on holidays this week. Of course it was also the week that I got sick and lost my voice. After spending a day in bed and taking 2 days off I decided to go and explore some churches on Wednesday. So i found (just) the Temple church (yep the one in the Da Vinci Code?) and i went to a free organ recital there - which was actually not that great but the church was beautiful. Inspired i walked down the road to St Brides church which has a crypt that you can go down into and see the footings and remnants of the 6 or 7 other churches that have been on the same sit since roman times which was very cool. Inspired I decided to go to the Museum of London which was amazing it to followed the history of London from the original geography through Roman, Saxon, Tudor etc... times there are heaps of artifacts and stuff there and it is set up for kids so there is heaps of cool stuff to see and touch. One of my favourite aspects was in the later periods when London was growing and growing around the time they were building the tube lines I think in the early 1900's the city was so obsessed with wealth and class there was this guy who was paid to make maps of the cities poverty areas. These maps are amazing and show every house built at the time coloured in according to the wealth of the families who lived there. It was really interesting and a little weird. I definitely need to go back there for another look around. So my day of Churches and history was over and I was totally buggered. I fell asleep on the bus home but it was worth it.

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