Friday in London

On Friday morning Tom and I walked across Lambeth Bridge from the city of Westminster to Lambeth Borough to see Lambeth Palace, the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. We had not done our homework to find out when or if the Palace was open. Well, it is not open, even a little bit. All we saw were the walls, the Archbishop’s Garden and St. Mary’s Church, now a museum, that are outside the walls of the Palace. So we walked down the street to see the British War Museum and later the Florence Nightingale Museum. I got very depressed looking at all the instruments of destruction on display at the war museum and was glad to spend some time learning all that Miss Nightingale had done to save lives throughout her lifetime. She not only cleaned up the hospitals during the Crimean War, but she went on to work on home health care for the poor when she came back to England. That night we went to Arcadia, a play by Tom Stoppard. Tom loved it. I’m still trying to figure it out. Will let you know more about it when I get home.