the Assyrian reliefs<\/a> of Sennacherib\u2019s BC 701 siege of the Judean city of Latish in 701 BC, and, of course, an obligatory inspection of the famous Greek marble sculptures from the Parthenon.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, after dinner and on a whim, we attended a piece of very pleasant and entertaining romantic-musical fluff called Half a Sixpence<\/em> at the Noel Coward Theatre, near Leicester Square. \u00a0In a version before Cameron Mackintosh got to it \u2014 he owns the Noel Coward Theatre \u2014 this play was my wife\u2019s first high school theatrical experience. \u00a0(She went on to major in theater at BYU.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
We walked everywhere, on Charing Cross Road and and Tottenham Court and all over the area, but especially up and down Oxford Street, past Selfridges and any number of other well-known establishments. \u00a0I\u2019ve long been glad that I didn\u2019t marry a shopper!<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m not sure that he shared my passion for countryside and islands and, especially, for mountains, but I can certainly agree with the great Samuel Johnson\u2019s quip that, \u201cWhen a man is tired of London, he\u2019s tired of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Posted from London, England<\/p>\n
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