We're very glad we did! It is a small but lively community, and the liturgy and preaching were very good. It was wild with children! Lots of energy. I had looked at their website and was really drawn to the place. Their them is Breaking bread, sharing God. Perfect for this day with the Road to Emmaus text. You can click here to look at their website.After church we came back to the flat for a while, and then went out for Sunday lunch at a place called Chimes of Pimlico. We'd heard about this being a good place for English food, and we enjoyed our glasses of cider and West Country Cidered Cod and Haddock. Very good.
After lunch we walked looking for flowers. It really is in between blooming seasons! We saw lots of dead tulips in St. James Park and the Embankment Gardens! We did find a statue of William Tyndale, which was pretty cool.
There is a really great book about Tyndale: God's Bestseller by Brian Moynahan. It is out of print (only published in 2003) but you can find it used at amazon.com and probably in libraries. It is well worth reading.And, speaking of books, we caught the Tube at Embankment and went to Leicester Square to go to Blackwell's and Foyles. (For those of you in the know about London, the Tottenham Court Station is closed until 2012 for a huge remodel.) We bought a couple books, and walked along Oxford Street to the Oxford Circus station, and then back to Holland Park. We stopped and picked up a couple things for our last two days. We also decided we needed ice cream to go with the strawberries we'd bought on Saturday at the market! The local gelato shop was swamped! But we had fun standing in line with parents and children and grandparents and young adults and teenagers from all over the world, all just hungry for delicious ice cream on a warm Sunday afternoon. We finally got our ice cream and headed back to the flat. Another fun and interesting day in London.
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