The Globe Theater

Any Shakespearean afficiano knows that the actor built his Globe theater in London in the late 1500s. The original theater was destroyed by fire a few years after it was built. It was rebuilt and only thrived for a few years more years during the 17th century. The Globe theater we visited was a reproduction built about 750 feet away from the site of the original. We wanted to take a tour, but the cost was stupid expensive. Twelve pounds for a two hour tour? Uh, no. . .

But I did get some pictures of the outside and the nearby Thames River. I appeared that the tide was coming in. The Thames (pronounced "tems") has a unique feature in that it is a tidal river. The ocean tide actually flows upstream into London. While looking at the river, we noticed a lot of waves and violent water activity. We were expecting to see the river flowing out to see, but it seemed stationary, and just bobbling around. We were guessing that the tide was pushing against the natural outflow of water as we watched.