I am as good as done with packing [which is good as I leave for the airport in about 5 hours, no sleep for me tonight] so here goes my London review finally.

The trip was really great. It was probably not your average London trip, as I barely saw any of the typical tourist attractions but since I had been to London before that was cool. We saw three Shakespeare plays at the Globe. They were great. The Globe is a rebuild of the original theater at which Shakespeare used to stage his plays, if you have seen Shakespeare in Love you know what it looks like. The atmosphere was really unique. The plays were all done traditionally with beautiful costumes and with very little of the text cut, and it was great. I actually understood a lot and I was surprised. We also attended a lecture by a Globe actor as well as a tour of the Globe and a theater workshop. The workshop was really great, it was lots of fun. It actually makes you want to start doing theater (if my parents read this they’d be very happy about that, hehe).

We were supposed to see a play at the Regent’s Park open air theater as well but it was rained out and they only played for about 20 minutes. It would have been staged in some kind of WWI scenario which, I guess, would have been interesting in contrast to the very classical setting of the other plays.

Other than the plays, we went to see an exhibition at the British Library which was called Sacred and it was an exhibition of Holy Books of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, very interesting! Then we also saw an exhibition, Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Franz Hals, at the National Gallery.

Other than that, I just spent time wandering around London, shopping a little, and I also met up with a friend twice who lives there. I was able to buy two more of those therapy pillows I love so much (called Squeezy Love). I already had two of them so now I have four. Just a shame I cannot take them to Spain, but I have no space whatsoever.

Anyway, I still have some things to do until I leave so I will end this here. I’ll write again as soon as I can once I have internet access in Barcelona. Take care!

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