Tottenham Pub Owner Supports Fixit Effort Too

Had quite an interesting outing last night. Harrods is an incredible store that makes Nordstrom’s seem like Wal-Mart. The people were mostly friendly but it is safe to say we felt out of place. The food area is incredible and we looked at a sweater for yo-yo but it cost 200 gbp. Sorry yo-yo apparently in London there are things I can’t afford for the kids. Next stop was the Hyde Park Christmas Festival. It was quite a mix of carnival, beer gardens, skating rink, food booths and a few vendors selling stuff you could buy from an Oriental Traders magazine. Did get roasted chestnuts (not over an open fire) and I liked them. Val didn’t.

Got a late start today but more than made up for it with an all out effort from the both of us. The National Museum was our first stop and the view from outside was spectacular. The sun always seems to be in our face so my pictures aren’t very good but glad it’s not raining. Val loved the National Museum paintings and I loved the building and a few of the paintings. I still think the French are the best painters and don’t have much use for stuff before the 1800’s. Oh well, I suspect those folks wouldn’t like any art I did either.

Really noticed shoes for some reason today and how they seem to be the piece of clothing that most determines how dressed up someone is. Jeans and tennis shoes are so much different that jeans and fancy Italian dress shoes. You can tell we spent a bit too much time looking at paintings before the 1800’s.

Our next stop was The Bricklayers in Tottenham. A bit of a different side of London. No fancy Italian dress shoes in the pub or on the way to it. We did great getting there. Used the tube, made a transfer then got the right bus and got off at the right place. Didn’t do so good getting back. May have been the refreshments at the Pub that caused us to overshoot the bus stop, etc, etc, etc. Val wasn’t too happy with all the interesting people we met but we survived and I had a great time as Tottenham won 2-0 and the pub owner supports our fixit effort too.

Ended the night at Covent Gardens. The cookies are still there Al and they had chocolate chip orange flavored ones that were great. The Belgium waffles were good but miss piggy says not as good as the ones in Brussels. Finally found some meat pies and brought them home to eat. Got lost one last time on the way home but central London isn’t nearly as exciting as the outskirts.

Hoping for a good nights sleep to start off our last day in London. It seems like I miscalculated the trip back to the airport and have a bit of figuring to do before we can make that. I will keep you posted.