George and Harry (or Dinner and a Movie)

A beautiful day in London and the weather couldn't be better. My friend Wendy arrived in the morning. She flew in to Gatwick and I met her at the Gloucester Road tube station (well, actually, the Starbucks across the street) when she got into the city. We went back to the hostel to claim a bed for her then we were back out in the fine weather. We took the Underground to the Embankment station, crossed the Thames and ambled along Bankside. We went to Shakespeare's Globe and did the walking tour and a special educational presentation about costuming. They were doing tech rehearsals for a show that's opening next weekend about the writing of the American Constitution called We The People. Next we walked to the George Inn, London's only surviving galleried coaching inn. We both had steak pie with mashed potatoes and peas - yumm. I tried the George Inn Ale - I don't recommend it. We sat there and chatted for a good while before walking back to the Globe and crossing the Thames on the Millennium Bridge. We walked up Fleet Street and turned right into Aldwych and up into the theatreland. We slowed down at Leicester Square long enough to decide to see the new Harry Potter movie in the theatre there (where the HP movies have premiered). The screen was huge, the seats were nice and big, the sound was excellent and the movie was great. After the movie we shuffled like sardines through the Leicester Square tube station and made our way back here. No specific plans for tomorrow but we've got "groundling" tickets to Merchant of Venice on Friday night! More later.