{"id":49807,"date":"2023-08-28T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49807"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:36:41","slug":"year-50-day-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/28\/year-50-day-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 118"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1143,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.westminster-abbey.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302061130\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.westminster-abbey.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 05:02:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d118-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and I outside Westminster Abbey.\" title=\"y50d118.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 118: Today we started off at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\">Westminster Abbey<\/a>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\/visit-us\/plan-your-visit\/the-queens-diamond-jubilee-galleries\">Queen&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee Galleries<\/a> special exhibit, which has an <em>incredible<\/em> view of the abbey (but doesn&#8217;t allow photos) in addition to the extra artifacts on display. The abbey is beautiful, and it was neat to glance around and constantly be seeing another tomb or memorial with a historical name I recognized.<\/p>\n<p>As we were waiting for our entrace time to the abbey we walked around the blocks surrounding it, getting some gorgeous views of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palace_of_Westminster\">Palace of Westminster<\/a> (Parliament) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Ben\">Big Ben<\/a> (technically the Elizabeth Tower; Big Ben is the bell), seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Scotland_Yard_(building)\">New Scotland Yard<\/a>, and some statues of famous people &#8212; including Abraham Lincoln. So yes, we went to London to visit a Lincoln memorial. ;)<\/p>\n<p>After Westminster we walked over to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buckingham_Palace\">Buckingham Palace<\/a>, then took a stroll through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyde_Park,_London\">Hyde Park<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marble_Arch\">Marble Arch<\/a> (which is under renovation, so is currently serving as a Vodaphone advertisement), and then went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selfridges\">Selfridge&#8217;s<\/a> department store. Which may seem like a slightly odd tourist destination, but we had recently watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/secrets-selfridges\/\">surprisingly interesting PBS documentary<\/a> on Henry Selfridge and the store that bears his name, so we had fun wandering through.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we ended the day with a visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londoneye.com\">London Eye<\/a> ferris wheel and its beautiful views of London.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonus photos: At Isaac Newton&#8217;s tomb in Westminster, eating ice cream in Hyde Park, and over the city in the London Eye.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d118b1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and in front of Isaac Newton&#39;s very ornate tomb in Westminster Abbey.\" title=\"y50d118b1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"1158\" height=\"1544\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d118b2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and I holding soft-serve ice cream cones with flakey chocolate sticks in them in front of the lake at Hyde Park.\" title=\"y50d118b2.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d118b3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and I in one of the carriages of the London Eye ferris wheel; the Palace of Westminster, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the Thames are visible behind and below us.\" title=\"y50d118b3.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster Abbey and the London Eye, plus glimpses of other spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[5760,5686],"class_list":["post-49807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","tag-vacation","tag-year-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}