London 2009 - Day 6 (Last full day)
We slept in this morning after last night’s wonderful anniversay experience. We went to the Botonist for Brunch around 10:30. LJ had blueberry pancakes and I had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. I’ve certainly had my yearly requirement for salmon since I’ve been here.
Outside the Botonist
Our neighborhood
We’ve had such great luck with retail therapy over here, we don’t think we have room in our luggage for everything we bought. So we went to the Post Office and bought a box to put our dirty clothes and some other stuff in. We took it back to the Post Office and shipped it to ourselves. It cost over $100 to mail that silly box! Oh, well. We’ve had better ideas.
Early afternoon we took the tube to Green Park Station which lets you out at St. James Street. There we wandered through the Ritz and past Christies which had amazing artifacts in the windows. We went to Wolsely’s at 4:00 for tea. The building was originally the headquarters for the Wolsely automobile which went out of business during the depression. The building is perfectly restored and looks like the set of a 1920’s movie. It was really elegant and beautiful.
Big Ben and Parliament
After tea we went to look for a very old pub called the Red Lion, but we never found it. Sometimes directions in guidebooks are somewhat less than perfect. Anyway, we found a perfectly wonderful little pub called the Golden Lion and we stopped for a glass of wine.
We went back to the flat to pack and get ready for the long flight home tomorrow. It’s been such a memorable trip. I really hope to be back soon.
