Like all good English majors I had to go to the Globe Theater. Although the original Globe from Shakespeare's time has been destroyed this reconstruction on ground close to the original was good enough for me to get goosebumps over being in the spiritual home of one of my heroes. We saw The Taming of the Shrew. Like any good plebian in Elizabethan England we were groundlings, i.e. we stood in the area just in front of stage. This is not as much of a sacrifice as it sounds. Even if you buy seats they are hard backless benches and although you can rent a cushion they still looked pretty uncomfortable. By standing I was able to do some modified Yoga stretches during the performance and kept reasonably comfortable. The perfomance was incredibly good even though "Kate" was a last minute replacement as the actor scheduled broke her foot. (Something Jim could relate to.) To get to the Globe we took a boat up the Thames. Not exactly like Henry VIII, but still fun.
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