Sunday, March 8, 2015

• Wei Wei came at 5:45 am to take us to the airport.
• We had our breakfast in the SAS Gold Lounge.
• Flight was smooth. Circled in a holding pattern northwest of LHR for 20 minutes.
• Landed on time. Wheelchair to take me through passport and customs straight to a Black London Cab.
• At the Strand Palace Hotel , 372 Strand, at 10:15 am. Got our room, #130, straight-away.

  

• Kari unpacked - and on our way at 10:45 am.
• While Kari saw the Fashion & Textile Museum , 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF, 11:00-11:30, I had a smooth Guinness across the street.
• Then a taxi to the Prospect of Whitby​ , ​57 Wapping Wall.
  We had a reservation for 1 pm but was there at 12:00 noon precise.
  Lovely lunch: Steak & Kidney Pie, London Pride Ales, all preceded by Hendrick's, respectively Tanqeray 10 G&Ts.
  Great views of life on the Thames, flood rising, high tide.

  

  

• By 1:45 pm off in a taxi to
  • Kari's Sunday afternoon at:
    • John Lewis : 300 Oxford St.
    • Debenham : ​334 Oxford St.
    • Selfridges : 400 Oxford St.
    Kari ``window shopped'' and came back to the hotel at 5:30 pm.
  • and my afternoon at
    • Guardian Live: Kazuo Ishiguro at the Royal Institution, 3-4:30 pm, 21 Albermarle St.
    • I bought a copy of Kazuo Ishiguro's first book in a decade:
    • The Burried Giant.
• 6:30 pm J. Sheekey Oyster Bar , 33-34 St.Martins Ct.
  Wonderful dinner: two G&Ts (Hendricks and Tanqueray), Oysters, Slip Sole Belle, Steamed Spinach and a carafe of Chablis.

  

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