Crossing Back over the Thames

We returned the same way we came, over the London Millennium Footbridge. You can see our destination--St. Paul's Cathedral--right in front of Meisha. The bridge was opened--are your ready for this--in 2000. However, the bridge is nicknamed the "Wobbly Bridge" because when it first opened, with a lot of people on it, they felt a wobble. It took two years of work before it was reopened.

Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition

I don't remember the extensive museum exhibits when we were there in 1997. This costume was made for Jane Lapotaire when she appeared as Elizabeth I at the opening of the Globe Theatre.

At the Globe Theatre

The reconstruction of the Globe Theatre was completed in 1997, the year Nancy and I first saw it the first time we were in London. They tried to make it as authentic as research and safety would let them. It is located just a short distance from where the original was. Here you can see the actors warming up for their performance of Much Ado about Nothing. On the train on our way back to York I read a review of the play in the London Times. As for our London "timeline," we've moved into the late sixteenth century.

Leaving the Museum Already?

We made it through the Celts and Romans in Britain, into the Anglo-Saxon period, before we had to leave to make it to the Globe before they stopped doing tour because they were doing a performance of Much Ado about Nothing at 2:00.

Mummy's the Word

At the British Museum

We started in the Nubian and Egyptian section with the hopes of getting to the Medieval period.

London: From Pre-history to the 21st Century

On Saturday we took the train to London for the day. Our mission: to find a particular Indie (independent) webcomics writer and artist at the London Comic Con MCM Expo--oh, and see some of the sights on the side. Geography and scheduling (the expo stayed open the latest) just so happened to let us begin with the pre-historic at the British Museum and end with the expo--where I was pre-historic! In this shot we are leaving the station at York.