Sabbatical, Day 32

We are safely in our London Hotel after a number of delays and transfers. One bag managed to travel with us; we are hoping the second arrives today. Yesterday, after dinner at an Italian restaurant we walked around Kensington Park where we saw many swans, and Kensington Palace - from a distance (some kind of formal dinner going on) - and many people playing futball or rugby.

We are enjoying some of the directions/phrases:
at the airport, asking people to come to the counter to "make yourself known."
if the bathroom is being used, it is "engaged."
at the underground, as you step into the train you are to "mind the gap."
or "mind your head" if the ceiling is low.

Today we are visiting Westminster Abbey and surrounding sites.

I am about a third through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and reading A Journey into Christian Art by Helen de Borchgrave.