Carla left yesterday, after a whirlwind long weekend taking in the sights of London...and beyond. In London, we saw the Changing of the Guard, Parliament and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, took a London Walks guided tour, did the London Eye, went through Kensington Palace, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Covent Garden, and had afternoon tea at Harrods. We also took a day trip to Stonehenge and Bath on Friday....whew. No wonder I'm so tired! And I didn't have to make the transatlantic flight!!
Thursday was funny-- the new James Bond movie is opening in theatres all over the country this week. At the Changing of the Guard ceremony on Thursday morning, the Queen's Band played the theme song for just about every Bond movie that exists. And then at Harrods, later on that afternoon, the new Bond girl was posing in one of their Bond-themed windows, each of which had a TV with clips from the movie. And during afternoon tea, the piano player decided to entertain us with, you guessed it, Bond theme songs. It's a little 007-crazy over here at the moment. At the Changing of the Guards, several young American guys were standing behind me, commenting on the multitude of 007 songs. They apparently didn't realize that the movie was about to be released, and in some rather vulgar language were proclaiming how ridiculous it was that all the songs were Bond songs. And then one of them exclaimed, "What the ----! This is an American movie!!" I couldn't take it anymore and was about to turn around to put him straight, but one of his friends who knew a little bit more what he was talking about told him to shut up, Bond is a British agent. Oiy...Americans!
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