We did make it back to St Paul's to climb the Dome.  And 

it's well worth the 400 some odd stairs to get there, 

some really beautiful views of the city. We stopped at the 

Whispering Gallery on the way up to see if what they say

about is really true, it is! You can stand on one side of the

Gallery that circles the Cathedral and whisper into the 

wall and the people standing on the opposite side can 

hear it loud and clear! The genius of Christopher Wren. 

Of course there are visitors from every country where 

ever you go in London and the lady standing behind 

Terry and Marisa in the white shirt we think was 

from Portugal.  We were standing at the door to the

stairwell, but couldn't move down because an elderly 

woman was having trouble getting down the steep 

winding staircase and everything had come to a stand 

still.  So, I took a few photos while we were waiting, 

but of course she and her friend didn't know that and 

were very upset that they couldn't get down. When we

finally could leave, they followed us all the way down, 

speaking Portugese in very angry voices! We could only 

pick up a few words and "Americanos" was one of 

them!  Oh well, hopefully they stayed for the Evensong,

they would have felt much better afterwards!