{"id":11971,"date":"2019-10-26T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2019-11-03T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:58:51","slug":"daily_1757_-_hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/10\/26\/daily_1757_-_hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1757 – Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe’re in London! Seeing Hamilton!<\/p>\n

First we slept, though, to recover from yesterday. Finally I had to wake Ingrid because I was starving hungry. The hotel breakfast looked decent – but since it was charged separately, I was rather aware of the cost, and decided that we could get an equally nice breakfast for half the price at the nearest Pret.
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\nApart from Hamilton, our plans for this day were vague and loose. I thought we could just see a bit of London, so we simply walked out of the hotel and headed south towards the Thames. This took us past not just a Pret but also the Gherkin, various other cool buildings, and then the Tower of London. Ingrid didn’t feel like walking for hours in a castle, so we just looked at it from the outside.
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\nShe was more interested in Tower Bridge – it’s pretty iconic! – so we went inside and looked at all the photos as well as the old engines. The view from up on the walkways is pretty nice as well. It really brings home the contrast of central London – centuries-old buildings side by side with gleaming, curved skyscrapers in glass and steel.
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\nWe walked westwards along the Thames, taking in the Globe theatre, Borough market, Millenium bridge etc on the way. Lunch was fish and chips near St. Paul’s.
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\nOne of the items on Ingrid’s list of places to see and things to do was Platform 9¾ so after lunch we took the Tube to King’s Cross. We had heard and read that there’s a baggage trolley there, halfway into the platform wall. What we were not prepared for was the commercialization of it. There is a Harry Potter shop right next to it, with a queue just to get in. And another big queue of people waiting to stand next to that baggage trolley and get their photo taken by a professional, with enough of a crowd there to warrant multiple security staff to wrangle them all. Eugh. The cost of globalization and cheap travel is that everything Instagrammable is totally overrun.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, we went to the London Dungeon. (No photos from there because it was dark from beginning to end.) I had expected something museum-like but it was more like a series of short theatre performances, with the crowd walking from one vignette to another. From Guy Fawkes, through the plague and the Great Fire, to Jack the Ripper and so on. Overall, not bad.
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\nDinner was conveyor belt sushi at Yo! Sushi. This was mixed with nostalgia even more than all the other things we’ve walked past. One of the very first times I had sushi was at Yo! together with Eric. Either their quality is not what it was, or maybe it’s my palate that has changed, but I found the food less flavourful than I remembered.
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\nThen some queueing, and finally, the grand finale of the evening – Hamilton, at the Victoria Palace theatre. We were there early to give Ingrid ample time in the gift shop, and she was overjoyed.<\/p>\n

She was even more overjoyed by the performance itself. And I have to agree – it was fabulous. I’ve heard it on Spotify enough times (god knows!) to know what it sounds like, but hearing and seeing it live was a whole different experience. I’m glad that Ingrid is such a fan because without her I wouldn’t be here.<\/p>\n

When the performance ended, my first thought was that if only we still lived in London – we could come back and see it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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