Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
Very commendable Marco..
Can never forget my old man taking me up west when I was a kid for my birthday.. We would spend the whole day visiting historical sights like the tower and seeing the Armour displays and the crown jewels,then Westminster abbey,parliament,Trafalgar square to see our hero Nelson and then a boat trip on the Thames,then the London dungeon and of course Madame tussauds before going to the pictures..
To be honest,I was in awe.. I took my eldest son up there for his 8th birthday too..
Best birthday present either of us ever had!
London is bloody fantastic IMO.
Blimey, you'd need a mortgage to do that nowadays.

Sounds like Westminster Abbey is the same as York Minster now, used to be free, but now there's a big charge.
Some would say "the church" is the rich landowner who can afford not to have charges, but then when you analyse the books, a lot of it is paper riches tied up in unsellable properties, and they have to keep these buildings standing somehow. If they have debts, they can hardly flog off St Pauls to be turned into a Wetherspoons