London

The trip to London was more than anything Frank could have ever dreamed of or hoped for. They stayed at a small student hostel on the bank of the river. Frank had his mother’s list of important locations in his pocket, but first he and his friend Nick went on an 30 __________ to the standard tourist sights. They went to Buckingham Palace and Tower of London, where they looked out over the city. They walked through the British museum, saw Westminster Abbey, Parliament Square and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Then they 31 __________ the paintings in the National Gallery and stood at Trafalgar Square 32 __________ the birds. They spent four days visiting everything, and took a tour down the Thames to enjoy the views of the bridges and monuments and have a better 33 __________ of London.

Then they started on his mother’s list. Frank stood outside the gymnasium where his mother had gone to school and saw schoolchildren in bright blue smocks leaving their classes, and he could 34 __________ his mother there as a child. He went to Regent Park where she 35 __________ to play, the carousel she loved, the bistro where his grandmother took his mother and aunt for dinner as a special treat. He went to her favourite museum, the Tate, and last on the list, he stood outside the house where they had lived. Frank 36 __________ if the same people who had taken her apartment still lived there. She had told him the story with tears in her eyes. It was more than she had ever shared with him before, and gave him new insights into her.

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London (30-36)