London: Day 3
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We were up on time today to have a decent breakfast, then we set out for the Portobello Road antiques market. It was a beautiful day and we wandered the streets and the stalls looking at the incredibly amount and variety of stuff for sale.
I went into a beautiful leather shop that Grandpa B would have loved, there were several beautiful, full grain leather trunks and satchels. I took a picture of the place, I loved it so much. From there we found a store selling hand blown glass balls in the color I was looking for, amber, and I was delighted to pick one up. We goofed around all the way down to the Travel Book Shop, of Notting Hill movie fame and wondered in it for a while. I picked up some post cards of the shop. We spent some time in some furniture decor shops and found a really nice journal for Geo.
London: Day 2
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What a busy day! We got up at 8:30am and made it down to the breakfast room just on time to have the continental but not the full English breakfast. We’ll have to get up earlier tomorrow.
We had a beautiful walk through Hyde Park. It was a crisp, sunny morning with a little frost on the ground, and there were several runners in the park. We came out by Buckingham Palace. We took a few pictures and wondered around a bit, then we walked through the beautiful St. James Park to the Horse Guards, and 10 Downing St. We took some pictures of the duck pond and the bridge crossing it with a view of the Palace in the background, and Horse Guard. There were actually Pelicans in the pond, so we took pictures of them too. I fed a squirrel some nuts from a nut bar I was eating from Harrod’s and the squirrel actually ran up my leg!
London: Day 1
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Drove to Thunder Bay and left the dogs with Ember Parken, Sandie loves her, so I don’t feel too bad about leaving my babies. Flew Northwest Airlines from Thunder Bay to Minneapolis, Mn, in a twin prop plane. It was an uneventful flight, but George and I got split up and I ended up sitting beside an RV salesman from Orlando, Florida.
We flew direct from Minneapolis to Gatwick on Northwest Airlines. Incidentally we had to fly back over Thunder Bay, it seemed like an incredible waste of our time. The “couple” across the aisle from us had too many drinks and became too friendly, much to the amusement/horror of the rest of the passengers in the vicinity. I felt bad for the poor lady in the seat in front of them, she kept on getting the back of her seat banged by the ass of the amours woman, I’d heard of people doing this on planes, but it was the first time I’d witnessed it.
