The main event of the day was to visit the Charles Dickens House Museum ~ it is in a beautiful section of town called Bloomsbury. It is the house C.D. lived in when he wrote many of his famous novels. But first we made a stop at the boys' favorite playground (we have found this practice wise before going to any museum, but particularly the small ones!). It has wonderful equipment and great climbing rocks off which they cannot help but jump. I am guessing you would not find these on a playground in the U. S. ~ too much liability. Amazingly, we made it through with no injuries.
Ben and Chris LOVE this Zip-line!
One of the great pleasures of the way we did this trip is that we have been able to take our time with things. We have had many days where we went from one sight to another sight to another sight ~ and those have been great days, but we have had more days where we chose one sight to focus on and tried to have a "normal" day around it. THIS was one of those days. We had breakfast at a local pancake house, took a walk to this park on a beautiful sunny Fall day, then meandered to the tube station to go to the museum.
A quiet, tree-lined street in Bloomsbury
In this picture, Ben is standing in front of a famous painting called "Dicken's Dream" by an artist named R.W. Buss. The images surrounding Dickens in the painting are the many colorful characters from Dickens novels. It was a really interesting painting.
Round blue plates such as this are seen on historical buildings around London, announcing who lived where. Some have helped us find places we were looking for, but some have surprised us by showing us places we had just happened upon. Like these in our neighborhood:
I PROMISE, the posts for the other days of Week 9 will not be this long!
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