London 2015, Day 5, July 4 !

London 2015, Day 5, July 4

Happy Fourth to us! We both slept late today, but it is a holiday and we were out late last night!

After a very slow start we took the tube to South Kensington stop, changing successfully from the Northern line to the Picadilly line, then walking a mile through a long tunnel right to the VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM. What a fantastic place, a beautiful building with amazing collections, everything one could want, even a few Turners for me (see Facebook photos!). I particularly liked the ironwork gallery, although the cast galleries were fun, with a Column of Trajan chopped in half! We took a short tour of a few highlights, and then found dear Erica for lunch! That was fun and we sat in their wonderful garden courtyard and she took some really nice photos of us of course! Thank you Erica!

After an easy two bus ride to our hotel, nos. 74 and 9, for recharging, we walked two blocks to the SAVOY THEATER for the show GYPSY with Imelda Staunton. She was amazing and the show was terrific and funny as can be. Had great orchestra seats (or stalls as they are called here) but were three flights underground and a long hike back up afterwards. Nice to take a short seven minute walk back to our hotel!