Cabinet War Room

Today we went to the Cabinet War Rooms, the top destination on Mitch's must-see list, and it was quite good. Supposedly everything was left just as it was at the end of WWII. I'm sending you the link http://cwr.iwm.org.uk/ because I know your Internet connection is better than ours. And of course there is technology to supplement the artifacts - listen to recordings of people talking about working with Churchill, living in the bunker, etc. I don't think one really gets the feeling of too many people in too little space, all smoking like chimneys with no natural light and no flush toilets. And right in the middle of the war rooms is the new Churchill Museum - sort of like a 300 page Churchill multimedia biography. Very well done, but much too much to absorb.

Then we walked up to Trafalgar Square and had lunch in the crypt and a concert at St. Martin in the Field. Young pianist, Beth Chen, played Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Prokofiev. St. Martin in the Field has been renovated and is looking all prosperous and freshly painted, and there was a full house for the concert. I've never seen that before.

We are tired today, so took the bus home through the remarkably congested streets (people and buses)....it's a slow trip, but great views sitting at the front on top of a double decker (Mitch calls the one closest to the side the "terror seat") Don't think we'll do much else today for fear of tiring Mitch too much.