Jour 2, 29 avril 2024

 I woke up very early this morning. In fact, I was awake most of the night. I slept fitfully. But I went to bed around 8 p.m. and got out of bed at 5:45. Overall, it was a pretty good night's sleep.

After breakfast, I went to the grocery store to buy some products I hadn't thought of yesterday.

Next, I headed to the National Portrait Gallery museum. Today the sun was shining but strangely the temperature varied a lot from hot to cold. My goal was to buy McCartney's 1964 photo book, Eyes of the Storm. The exhibition ran from June to October 2023 at the National Portrait gallery. Captured by Paul using his own Pentax camera, the photographs in the exhibition were taken between November 1963 and February 1964. 1964: Eyes of the Storm (the book) features 275 photographs of McCartney taken in the six cities of these intense and legendary months - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George and Ringo.

I got it!!!

I had a sandwich at Pret for lunch and went home waiting for my friends to arrive: Lyne, Catherine and André. They arrived at South Kensington tube station at 2:30 p.m. We were all moved to find ourselves together in London. Finally ! We went to the house. They took a break for about an hour and we got back together for the first tour: The Royal tour. In this tour we saw: St-James Park, Buckingham Palace from a certain distance, Trafalgar Square, which was very lively. We crossed the Jubilee Bridge from where we could admire Big Ben, the Palace of Westminster and the famous London Eye. On the southern path, there were people as always but there was also a man who was doing entertainment with a snake. I screamed and ran as far as I could. My friends didn't know what happened until they joined me. I can't see snake. It scares me so much. We crossed back to the north side with Westminster Bridge and took a bus back near our little house. It was time for our fish and chips at the Phoenix, a pub I visited for the first time. After our delicious dinner, we chatted for a while in our living room before heading to our rooms for the night.  That is what we can call a other beautiful day in London. 

24463 steps today !

  

 

Une magnifique photo prise par Lyne.