Our next adventure began a couple of hours ago when we left home after dark to head to the Greenville SC Amtrak Station and The Crescent scheduled to depart at 10:58PM. With some time to spare we checked Yelp! and chose Soby’s in downtown for dinner. Good call! Our choice off the chef driven menu was to share a most delectable Pork Tenderloin dinner followed by a Snickerdoodle Cheesecake. The cuisine exuded Southern style and the service did too. Got a text from Amtrak while we were dining advising us that the train is running behind schedule. We lingered long enough at table that the ice rink was cleared of skaters by the time we walked past on our way back to the truck but the festive lights along the street made for a delightful scene augmented by the crisp chilly air.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.
The two of us have long been fascinated with the history of canals and their role in the history of transportation, industrialization, and more recently recreation. This stay in London has given us new opportunities to explore and learn more about how canals contributed to the growth of this great city and how they are being used and preserved today.
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