This morning we did a Sandemans Walking Tour of London. It was great and in large part it was great because our tour guide was so great. Herbie was a professional street entertainer from the age of sixteen until he was forty-five, about ten years ago, when his knees gave out on him. He was a tightrope walker and a juggler and a magician. Herbie traveled all over the world performing at busker festivals like the one that was held in Denver in the late 1980s.
Sara and I walked a few blocks over to Covent Garden for breakfast. We found a great pastry shop and had a croissant before we started the walking tour.
Covent Garden is one of the few places in London where they still allow street performers. I think we will go back to Covent Garden after dinner and watch the street performers.
After Herbie introduced himself we started our walking tour and the first stop was this typical English pub.
According to Herbie the typical English pub is starting to fade away as people drink less and tend to do their drinking at home. Pub culture dictates that when you have a baby you bring the baby down to the pub for a sort of second baptism called wetting the baby’s head. You don’t baptize the baby with beer, but you pass the baby around so everyone can admire the little tyke and drink to the baby’s good health.
After we finished the walking tour Sara and I had lunch at an old English pub.
After lunch we took a long walk along the Thames Embankment and then went back to the apartment where I took a nap.
For dinner we went to an Italian restaurant.
That’s it for today. I hope you are having a great day wherever you are.
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