The Globe and the Palace
At the Globe
Shakespeare, a dabbling of modern art, and a trip the Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace filled the day on Saturday. We ventured into the square mile that is the City of London, near St. Paul’s Cathedral, to walk across the Millennium Bridge (you know, the bridge they blew up in the Harry Potter movie) and tour Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. A nice guided tour and an opportunity to see what the view from the perspective of the groundling as well as from the first and second tier of seats. We didn’t have to stand through a play this time, thankfully.
The weather has taken a turn for the better, and it was pleasant to sit outside the Tate Modern and have lunch on the grass. A quick trip into the Tate Modern to see the great entry hall (the building is an old power station, and the enormous turbine room is the grand entrance into the modern art museum) as well as a some modern art.
The entire ISCA group at Hampton Court
Then something new for me, we ventured to King Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace, where the students had significant free time to explore such things as the King’s apartment, Queen Mary II’s apartment, the kitchens, and then the glorious gardens, including a maze. The palace is home to “the vine”–a grape vine planted in 1768.
Today was an on-campus day, where the students learned about cricket, fives and squash, among other things. Tomorrow it’s off to Bath and Stonehenge.
