Author Archives: Markham

A published guide counselled us to plan on 2–3 hours at the Tower of London.  We spent 5 hours there and could have easily spent more, had only my body not given up under me. What’s The Tower of London? I always imagined that the Tower of London was a tower, but in fact it’s […]

Our third church service of Sunday, 10 Aug was at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Unlike Westminster, the interior was painted—and white; add in the grand windows, and it was quite bright in there.  Imagine travelling from a tenebrous and mysterious stone castle whose ceiling itself is nearly lost in shadow to this bright, white worship hall.  Each […]

After Sung Eucharist at Westminster Abbey, we hurried off to South Kensington Station for the LDS church meeting with the Hyde Park Ward. It’s a small world for Mormons We had white shirts and ties but were hardly in our usual Sunday best, nevertheless, upon exiting the station, I made eye contact with a couple […]

Sunday morning, we visited Westminster Abbey for Sung Eucharist, scheduled for 11:15. Westminster Abbey is a grand, gothic edifice, and I found its architecture, music, and sculpture a garden of empyrean delights, the music most of all. We were obliged to leave the service before it was complete, shortly into the imparting of the sacraments.  Given […]