Preamble

My trip to England to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee was wonderful in its way, but my blog posts have not been completed. I started having a gall bladder attack as I was leaving the USA and was too ill throughout the voyage to enjoy it as much I had hoped to. Plus, my beloved aunt passed away on my fourth day away. I ended up cutting my trip a bit short.

Not recounted in the posts on this blog: I spent Day 3 touring Oxford with two English friends. I finally got to see the Ashmolean (bucket list item!), which had been closed for renovations on my previous visit. But I was very sad NOT to view the actual Arab robes of Lawrence of Arabia, as they were out on loan. I go on about these robes a bit more in this blog entry from my D-Day Tour.

On the day of the Jubilee, I enjoyed a very upmarket street party in Piccadilly, outside Fortnum & Mason. The Big Lunch they called it, as neighbors across the UK got together in massive block parties. I wended my way down to the Thames near Westminster to TRY to see the Jubilee Flotilla, but was crushed in the mob and never saw nuffin', as the Cockney said to the policeman.

One day I hope to write up this trip with just a little more detail. In the meantime, for your reading pleasure, you will find short descriptions of two other flying trips to England tacked on in the older posts.