Day of stairs

Thursday 3rd July

Okay so lots of stairs. We started off with the Shakespeare's Globe theatre which was totally awesome. They were rehearsing a new (modern) play and we got to watch them rehearsing a song. It was cool and we got to sit in the upper and middle galleries and its really close up. We are so going to see a proper Shakespeare play there when we're next in London. They're all sold out for the rest of this week.

Then we went to St Paul's Cathedral which is just wow. Its soo sooo big and elaborately decoraded. We climbed all the way up to the very top which is 587 steps high!! The veiw from the top was amazing and very high up and very freaky. We were lucky enough to attent a eucharist service while we were there (they have them 3 times a day!!)

Next up we took the tube down to Hyde park and had a look around Wellington Arch. It had more stairs. They also had an exhibition inside the arch on the New Zealand Anzac memorial which is also in Hyde Park Corner. Its a real cool memorial and surreal seeing such NZ cultural stuff in the middle of London.

We then walked down the Pall Mall past Buckingham palace to Trafalgar Square. They were going to show a Opera on a big screen in Trafalgar Square so we sat down to enjoy it. They were handing out big plastic ponchos (which I think are hilarious) and then it started to absolutely pour with rain. We stuck it out for about 5 minutes before giving up as we were totally soaked.

Gem and Jez