Charity and I recently got around to reading Wicked. I’d heard about the book from friends, and of course, one could not escape the mega-commercial, gratuitous onslaught of the Broadway musical. First season Ugly Betty fans, you know what I’m talking about. Since arriving in London, we could not help but notice the ads everywhere…
Tag: London
We’re Ready for Our Close-Up
We’ve been in the UK for about three weeks and managed to get hooked on three TV shows: ? Strictly Come Dancing – the original _Dancing with the Stars_ ? Any random BBC documentary ? The Wright Stuff Now, we discovered The Wright Stuff pretty early on in our trip while getting ready for the…
Very, Very British
We were very excited to be in London – the capital of the United Kingdom and the center of it’s vast (or at least formerly vast) empire. Being the unapologetic nerds that we are, we spent two afternoons at both the British Museum and the National Gallery. We had a tremendous time and were very…
Hey, Kids– Big Ben, Parliament…
For those of you not familiar with National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Charity and I have been laughing about the following clip since we arrived in London, especially on yesterday’s Hop-on, Hop-off tour. Little did we know… well, first the clip… We had so little sleep yesterday, we decided to take it easy and sleep in…
Ummm…I think that was the Changing of the Guard…?!
We arrived in London yesterday afternoon and, after a few snafus courtesy of the National Express bus service, we settled into our hotel just fine and quickly made our way out toward the town proper and more specifically, in search of “the theatre“. We found it at the tkts booth in Leichester Square where they…