We had a lazy morning this morning. Bruce and I walked to the train station to pick John up and then we went to a nearby outside pub and I bought us a round. Really great to be together again. (Although John and I knew each other for a few year already, we met Bruce on our trip to Antarctica. The three of us shared a room and got along famously. It was the trip of a lifetime in so many ways. We enjoyed the polar region and traveling together so much, that after COVID we travelled together again through the NorthWest Passage over Canada, which made us bi-polar). We went back to the condo and John met Pam for the first time and we had a good catch up. When John asked about Mom and Dad I told him what’s been going on with my elderly parents and how that's playing on mind during this trip. Then we had a really nice Indian meal that Pam had cooked for us. While they watched a TV show, I called home. Dad has had a tube inserted to help drain the fluid from his chest cavity. He is still researching MAID (medical assistance in dying) but he is going to come home from the hospital after the weekend and should be home when I get home thankfully. So that is all a relief. Went and told John, Bruce and Pam the better news and then we all went to bed.
Saturday, October 31st.
We had a lazy start this morning talking and hanging out. Bruce made John and I a great breakfast of scrambled eggs on toast with bacon, tomato and mushrooms. Then we went for a walk in Greenwich to the Royal Naval College and the Maritime Museum and then to the Cutty Sark. We had three pints in a couple of pubs before we went to Bill’s for dinner. We were back to the condo by 8 and hung out with Pam for a while. I was tired and had drunk too much and kinda crashed.
Sunday, November 1st.
We had breakfast with Bruce. Pam went to work in the office at Canary Wharf today as John is camped out on the floor of her office. We got organized and headed out by train to the centre of London. We went to Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street, a bookstore where Bruce bought a book, HMV where John bought a CD, Piccadilly Circus, past Big Ben and the Parliament buildings, the Mall and finally the Winston Churchill Museum. Bruce gave us his pass and I paid for a senior. Bruce went to a pub. The museum was in the original basement and tunnels where the British high command conducted the war. We had walking sticks that told us information about every step of the way, including the war room office, bedrooms, the BBC radio room, typing pool room, etc. They worked, ate, and slept there especially during the blitz. There was another part of it where there were artifacts of his life, sections of his speeches and other historical information. John and I enjoyed it very much and spent a couple of hours there. Surprisingly I didn't take any photos there as it was dark and kind of claustrophobic. When we left we met Bruce and went to the Sherlock Holmes Pub for one more beer before heading back to his house to have a spaghetti bolanaise that he made this morning, with Pam. We had a nice evening hanging out before bed.
