UK Trip Report
 

Can't wait to hear more. I've been watching the webcam on Trafalgar Square and was wondering what was going there with all the trucks and what looked like walls, etc...Now I know. Thank you and I look forward to hearing more of your trip.

Thanks for the quick report back. Does Brock's Guest house have a website? If not, where can I get more info? Thanks again.

Hi Chicgal, you can ignore my question on the Chicago post.

When you took the verger tour of Westminster Abbey, did you also have to pay admission(L7.50 on the website + L4 for the verger tour)? Did you have to get a ticket for the verger tour in advance?

Sounds like you had an awesome trip!

I cannot believe you couldn't find decent nosh on a Sunday. Londoners certainly aren't at home singing hymns -- we're out eating at gastropubs, or check these:

http://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaura...php?Sel_ID=105

Sounds like you had a full trip though !

Excellent website ealing calling, thanks for posting!

Chicgal, so did you ONLY pay L4 for the verger tour? Seems like you get to see most of WA and a tour to boot w/o paying the L7.5 admission charge or am I missing something?

As I suspected, just not sure I have enough time to cram in WA, I remember the good old days when it was free on Wednesdays :-)

It's OK chicgal, but you were right the first time. It's Yeoman WARDERS, not Wardens. They are also called Beefeaters.

Chic,
What did you think of Stonehenge?
I deciding whether or not to add it to our itnerary, but using evanevans, it can get costly (although its combined with bath or whatever) for several people in a family.
Mark

Mark - Stonehenge is, IMHO, a big bust - you used to be able to walk up to the stones and then it was slightly better - partly becuase of the fun you could have carving your name into the stones - but now when only viewed from a distance it really is rather a yawn

>>partly becuase of the fun you could have carving your name into the stones -<<

What?!?!!? People were carving their names in Stonehenge!! I cannot control myself....what MORONS!!! I can't believe that people would be so idiotic and short sighted that they would carve their names in such a historical place! No wonder they don't allow people near the stones anymore, because IDIOTIC MORONS carved their initials in the stones!

Most of the historic sites in the UK have LOTS of graffiti. Hundreds of years agao prisioners in the Tower scratched their names in the windows/walls/furniture. Folks signed the stones at Avebury/Stonehenge for centuries.

But things are pretty much protected now - not much defacing nowadays.

And don't let tempusfugit's post get your knickers in a twist :-) That was his first ever post here on Fodors. I suspect he is a regular who logged on w/ a new screen name just to stir things up . . . . . . .

<i>&quot;don't let tempusfugit's post get your knickers in a twist&quot;</i>

hee hee... I love that saying! :D

&gt;&gt;Most of the historic sites in the UK have LOTS of graffiti. Hundreds of years agao prisioners in the Tower scratched their names in the windows/walls/furniture. &lt;&lt;

I don't have a problem with that, because that is part of the history, or what Chicgal mentioned about the Coronation chair. I understand that. However, to think that someone nowadays would do that...it's as if someone decided to add their own creativity to the Mona Lisa.

suspect that tempus was attempting a little humor - I certainly took it that way.

&gt;&gt;suspect that tempus was attempting a little humor - I certainly took it that way&lt;&lt;

Then he probably should keep his day job...comedy is definitely not his thing. :)

Like many things - it is in the eye of the beholder - our antipodean friend is correct - my comment was supposed to be irony...would not go so far as to say it was humour. But I stand by my WMD and re-state that IMHO Stonehenge is not maddly exciting