Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Another must see before we returned to the States was Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.  We took the opportunity to go there for a tour last weekend.  While it isn't on the exact site where the Globe actually sat, it is so very cool to imagine the plays of Shakespeare being put on in a theatre such as the one we toured.  The most interesting thing we heard on the tour was that the audience members who could afford seats would often eat an orange and then put the peel under their nose to mask the smell coming from the groundlings.  I think not going to see one of Shakespeare's plays at the Globe Theatre might be a big regret we have from this trip.  I guess we'll put it on our to-do list for if we ever come back to London.

  

A portion of the exterior of the Globe.

The stage.

The interior.  I never knew that it had an open top.  Very cool!

Looking back toward the Globe while walking across the Thames.