London Revisited

It turns out that ending the trip with two days, one full day, in London was a little anti-climactic. While I had far from seen and done everything in London that I wanted to see and do, I didn’t quite have the energy or enthusiasm to try to cram a lot into my final visit.

One reason that I didn’t do more than I did in these last two days is that the one thing that I did do took a lot longer than expected. When I left the United States a month or so ago, it was the middle of the U.S. Open. With tennis still on my mind, I decided to go to Wimbledon to see it’s museum and take a guided tour of the grounds.

The guided tour was really interesting. The grounds were a lot smaller than I expected from what I’ve seen on television. Also, I never realized how close together all of the outside courts were to each other. Parts of it looked like you might find at a public court, except with perfectly manicured grass and an overwhelming sense of history.

We also went to see Court One and Centre Court. Obviously, being the most famous tennis court in the entire world, Centre Court was quite an experience, though it seemed a little strange because there were no lines, nets or, except for about forty of us on the tour, people. One unexpected highlight was they tested the retractable roof while we were there, so we got to see that close. Not exciting, just interesting.

Most of the other things that I did in these final two days in London is just walk around, take my last set of pictures, eat, and buy a last group of souvenirs. I took some pictures of Buckingham Palace from the front, since I was in the neighborhood and since I noticed that on my last trip to London, all of my photos were from the back. That’s it, really. Nothing too exciting at the end.

As I write this, I’m on a plane back to the United States. I’ll be there around ten days before heading off to Argentina for eight weeks. I’m thinking of posting some “Top Five” lists from my European trip, just for fun, and then I’ll probably start posting again once I get to Buenos Aires.

Cheers.