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Kensington Palace
Today we have done a ton of walking. We started at the Tower of London just to get it out of the way before mire people got there. Went to see the Crown Jewels and the ravens. Then we went over to Tower Bridge and took the hour as I'd never been there. Skipped the last part, the engine rooms.
Then we navigated the Tube to Kensington Gardens , to the palace. There's a special exhibit going on there which is FANTASTIC. It's called The Enchanted Palace, and they've taken the idea of royal princesses and moved into the realm of the fairy-tale fantastic. There are Detectors running around dressed in long, grey aprons full of strange instruments and with lights strapped to their heads. They are caretakers of this palace outside of time, and part of their job is to maintain Palace time and to get rid of any influences from the outside. At one point, my help was engaged to identify a dead spider and to move it from a nest of alarm clocks to a cloth one of the Detectors was holding, using forceps.
There was an Explainer sitting at a high table. When I wandered by, the Detector who had gotten me to help them with the spider was recounting the adventure of it to him, then spied me and said 'Shes the one who helped us!' They asked for my name and the Explainer wrote it down in his book.
There was also a quest-the names of seven historic prinesses are hidden in the rooms and you can look for them. You don't get anything if you find them, well maybe a sticker at the end.
It's fun for kids too-at a couple of points the Detectors had a couple of kids that were running around and were asking them to help explain some mysteries, and then engaged them in a game.
Anyway, highly recommended if you male it to London. I have no idea how long the exhibit will be up. You have to go up one flight of stairs at the beginning and down one at the end, but the rest us flat.
(I sort of felt like I was in one of those evocative video games, like Myst.)
Back in the hotel room now, to rest and read until dinner.
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Then we navigated the Tube to Kensington Gardens , to the palace. There's a special exhibit going on there which is FANTASTIC. It's called The Enchanted Palace, and they've taken the idea of royal princesses and moved into the realm of the fairy-tale fantastic. There are Detectors running around dressed in long, grey aprons full of strange instruments and with lights strapped to their heads. They are caretakers of this palace outside of time, and part of their job is to maintain Palace time and to get rid of any influences from the outside. At one point, my help was engaged to identify a dead spider and to move it from a nest of alarm clocks to a cloth one of the Detectors was holding, using forceps.
There was an Explainer sitting at a high table. When I wandered by, the Detector who had gotten me to help them with the spider was recounting the adventure of it to him, then spied me and said 'Shes the one who helped us!' They asked for my name and the Explainer wrote it down in his book.
There was also a quest-the names of seven historic prinesses are hidden in the rooms and you can look for them. You don't get anything if you find them, well maybe a sticker at the end.
It's fun for kids too-at a couple of points the Detectors had a couple of kids that were running around and were asking them to help explain some mysteries, and then engaged them in a game.
Anyway, highly recommended if you male it to London. I have no idea how long the exhibit will be up. You have to go up one flight of stairs at the beginning and down one at the end, but the rest us flat.
(I sort of felt like I was in one of those evocative video games, like Myst.)
Back in the hotel room now, to rest and read until dinner.
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I think I get at least one unexpectedly magical experience per trip, and this was definitely one.
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This website is also associated with the exhibit. I don't know if you saw the display about Peter the Wild Boy, but apparently he was a feral child who was part of the court of George I for a while. (http://www.standingstill.co.uk/peterthewildboy/)
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