Today I joined a guided tour through the Freemason's Hall (auf Deutsch: Freimaurer-Loge). It's an impressive Art deco building close to Covent Garden and the tour was excellent.
Our guide told us that some buildings you see in films that are supposed to be the Kremlin, the MI5 headquarters or even Sadam Hussein's palace are in fact the Freemason's Hall in London. So you might see a lot of marble and blue and golden decorations whenever you watch a James Bond, a Johnny English or a Sherlock Holmes film. According to our guide the Germans didn't bomb the building in World War II because Hitler planned to use it after occupying England.
Unfortunately we were not allowed to take any photos inside the Great Hall so I bought a postcard and took a (very bad) picture of it for your eyes only. We have had a lively discussion tonight in our living room and as I'm not very good at doing things in parallel, this is the output.
There were plenty of other sights I visited today. Cleopatra's Needle, historic baths, the Twinnings tea shop, three churches, the Royal Courts of Justice - just to mention the most important of them. But it would be too much to write about all of them here. Have to go to bed now. By the way, had the best possible sushi for lunch today - see the mouthwatering picture below - and my first beer in a pub since I arrived. Many more good beers to come, I hope.
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