England Day 5

Today started out much more promising as i was going to visit my Aunt shirely and this time i was sure that i was not going to get left behind. I got to the house at about 10:15 and spent some time having a cup of tea with Cousin Mark, Auntie Shirley and Brian. once we all had or wits about us we took a walk to the local underground station where we caught the metro line to london. we got off at the London Bridge station and entered the city for a bustling day.

Our first stop was the Bourough market which is the oldest market in london, while there we saw all sorts of crazy things, orange cauliflower, purple caulifower, truffles, exotic teas, exotic meats, and many more wonders. after about half an hour spend wandering through the market and protecting my backpack from pickpockets we walked out of the market and into the yard of a very nice church which had a large grassy picnic area right outside. we indulged in a fresh lunch consisting of nuts, homemade sandwitches, fresh strawberries apples and bannanas (in england pronounced bAAA-nAAAA-nAAAA-s) after our lunch I was intruiged by the church and so we decided to take a tour of the inside which turned out to be quite a piece of history, the church itself hgad been standing since approximately the 6th century and contained works from may different periods all very unique and old. After a quick walk around the church we headed out in the south bank to wander around for a little bit.

We passed a ship that was moored on the edge of the Thames (pronounced Temes) and took a nice walk around passing a place called the clink where prisoners spent much of their time before they were executed. After some more wandering around we ended up outside the reconstructed version of shakespeer's globe theatre where we went in and attended a play that was being put on in true shakespeerian spirit with the actors set and theatres as authenticlly shakespeerian as possible. We stayed for the first act of the play which was Tymon of Athens and then decided to leave and continue wandering aftyer which we went to the Tate Modern Art gallery which is a converted power plant that used to run on coal, after that we headed home because we were all exahusted.

Once i reached Home we had another quick cup of tea before i was picked up by Auntie Hazel and Uncle Laurie who treated me to my firwst official Fish and Chips in England at a local restuarant called the catch, I then went home and fell asleep.