Train to Stratford and Roaring Girls

We have breakfast at St. Pancras station at Le Pain Quotidien where we can get something besides eggs. It is quite cool and windy this morning. Dave and I are finally heeding Anne's advice to always carry an umbrella in London. We check out of our hotel (they will keep some of our luggage for us) and easily hail a taxi on a side street near our hotel. We go to Marleybone Station where we take the train to Stratford, a pleasant two and a half hour ride. We have bought sandwiches in the station to eat on the train for lunch. 

We walk to the Penryn Guest House, about ¾ of a mile. It is a lovely place with nicely furnished rooms and reasonable prices. It takes us a half hour, maybe a mile or mile and a half, to walk to town where we enjoy a lovely dinner at Carluccio's right on the river. It is an absolutely beautiful evening and we have some time before the play starts to walk along the Avon River and watch the swans.

"Roaring Girls" was a romp roaring fun play by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, contemporaries of Shakespeare's, about Moll Cutpurse, a woman who defied conventions of the times. It was just a wonderful production, never a dull moment. We marvel that such a play was written in the 17th century! It seemed so contemporary. 

We walk back to our guest house getting lost along the way so taking a bit longer than expected but it is a nice night to be out walking so it was fine. Didn't take many pictures today.

                                              Enjoying dinner at Carlucci's on a lovely evening.

          View from window at RSC theater