January and Parents
After Daph went South and Caroline went home, I waited about 10 minutes and lo and behold, my parents were on my door step. My dad, the trooper that he is, the same man that said "I just don't have much curiosity about the world" tolerated a 10 hour travel day just to see the digs of his daughter. My mom loves to travel, so she was easy to convince.
During my parents visit they spent their first day in Penge. We spent Saturday in Brighton, which I have named the SanFrancisco of England because it really is. Sunday we tooled around London, which was wonderful. I first experienced speakers corner in Hyde Park with mom and dad. We saw someone who appeared to be American pretending to preach about the merits of salvation through Jesus Christ. I have a suspicion that the guy was actually an actor with ambitions of becoming a stand up comedian. He drew a big crowd filled with Atheist hecklers and other hethans.
After a long day of walking and tubing and watching the ducks in parks, we found this little pub near the Charring Cross Station that had a no smoking section, which was bliss, and if that weren't good enough, they had the best sausaged I have ever tasted. I had some wierd "toad in a hole" dish that was all about Yorkshire Pudding, sausage and gravy. My mom had killer bangers and mash and my dad had a cheesburger. I'm kidding about the cheesburger.
After the weekend, Mom and Dad were on there own in London for a few days. They do not reccomend the Original Bus Company hop on/off tour. They do reccomend the Museum of London and they do reccomend a side trip to Bath. That was our next destination.
We spent two nights and two full days in Bath. That was a good amount of time to fully take in the city. We all really loved Bath. The architecture is stunning but it pales in comparison to the architecture of the Roman Baths. Amazing. I'm sure Mom and Dad will be coming back someday, well, Mom will be for sure, and we will do Wales next. That's the plan.
During my parents visit they spent their first day in Penge. We spent Saturday in Brighton, which I have named the SanFrancisco of England because it really is. Sunday we tooled around London, which was wonderful. I first experienced speakers corner in Hyde Park with mom and dad. We saw someone who appeared to be American pretending to preach about the merits of salvation through Jesus Christ. I have a suspicion that the guy was actually an actor with ambitions of becoming a stand up comedian. He drew a big crowd filled with Atheist hecklers and other hethans.
After a long day of walking and tubing and watching the ducks in parks, we found this little pub near the Charring Cross Station that had a no smoking section, which was bliss, and if that weren't good enough, they had the best sausaged I have ever tasted. I had some wierd "toad in a hole" dish that was all about Yorkshire Pudding, sausage and gravy. My mom had killer bangers and mash and my dad had a cheesburger. I'm kidding about the cheesburger.
After the weekend, Mom and Dad were on there own in London for a few days. They do not reccomend the Original Bus Company hop on/off tour. They do reccomend the Museum of London and they do reccomend a side trip to Bath. That was our next destination.
We spent two nights and two full days in Bath. That was a good amount of time to fully take in the city. We all really loved Bath. The architecture is stunning but it pales in comparison to the architecture of the Roman Baths. Amazing. I'm sure Mom and Dad will be coming back someday, well, Mom will be for sure, and we will do Wales next. That's the plan.
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