We’ve been without a real bed of our own since the waning days of August 2008. Our bedroom furniture was too massive for this house so we gifted it to a friend just before we left St Petersburg. Since then we have slept on an air mattress unless we were in a hotel or staying with family or friends. It’s will be a bit like heaven to be sleeping in our own bed once again.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
And even when staying with family you have had to sleep on an air mattress. Glad to see that you are acquiring some basic amenities.