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A National Gallery Day and The Night of the Iguana - Sep 13, 2019

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The London sky was alive with contrails today. Morning found us back at a familiar haunt. If you were to ask us we would both confess we are getting a little worn out now in our sixth week of travel. But with it being Friday and there not being any matinees we decided to relax a bit, not leave so early and spend some leisurely time visiting a place we haven't been to before. Every embassy flies its flag and this area of London between Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square has embassies in abundance. Brazil's embassy with its flag proudly flying. You know how wherever you travel in the world there are people that have a maple leaf flag pin stuck to their clothing, hat, bag, and who knows what all else. It's that country that has the maple leaf flag. Obviously the fact that the maple leaf flag is really important to the citizens of that country up north, it's also really important in terms of their embassy to make sure that everyone does exactly who ...