The day after European Studies ended, I found myself in my parent's hotel, the Sanctuary House above Fuller's pub, right down the street from Westminster Abbey! Naturally, we spent nearly the whole day exploring the Abbey, which is one of my favorite churches in the whole world. It is very secular in its number of monuments significant to England's history as well as the graves of kings and poets. We took the Verger's tour which is a great way to get the details. I love the fan vaulting in the Henry VII chapel. The Abbey also has a gorgeous chapter house and gardens.
We had a delicious lunch in their Cellarium and I had a chicken pie with a huge pastry puff on the top.
In the afternoon we walked around Westminster and saw the changing of the Royal Horse Guard near St James's Park. In the evening we had a wonderful dinner and chat in Fuller's before beginning the arduous job of getting all my various stuff (including my hobo box full of stuff) consolidated for our journeys! We were lucky because the hotel offered to keep most of it while I travelled to Stratford and Paris with only a small clothes bag.
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