London

7/2/2010 Friday

We got into London last night, 7/3 Thursday. Our motel (The Elizabeth) is in an old, and expensive, neighborhood. Our room is very small, in the basement, and we do have a daylight window, but the air conditioner requires the window to be opened about 6 inches (by about 5 ft. wide), so it is only marginally effective. Mary didn't sleep well last night because of the heat.

I didn’t write that at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, there was a statue of Joan of Arc who was executed at age 19 for being a witch and a heretic, and then later a decision was made at Notre Dame to save her reputation and she was then made a Saint. (I started to look Joan of Arc up on Wikepedia – check it out, or read a book!).

Learning lot on this trip.

On this date, we took an open air, double-decker bus tour of London(“Original Tour”). We went to Picadilly Circus, had lunch, walked around. Back in our neighborhood, we had a bad Japanese dinner “walk-away” (take-out).

Todd