First stop, after Cafe Nero for breakfast, was Foyles on Charing Cross. OMG – better than the Tattered Cover in Denver because it’s well lit and modern and the books are new – except of course for the antiquities which I missed but TW saw – and bought… We spent a very long time there and could have spent a full day if we had left Master J at home. E asked to go back at 5:30pm – even after a full day out. It was that good.
Then we went back across town and walked down Portobello Road, without getting pickpocketed though someone else did while we were there, and got to Books for Cooks just in time to get a table for lunch. I enjoyed the shop, and the lunch, so much that I PURCHASED COOKBOOKS. TW also purchased cookbooks. And, I bought one for RJ too but I don’t think she knows that I did.
We went home and dropped off our books and took a 15 minute breather and then headed across town in the other direction for a walk past Big Ben and a visit to Dali Universe. Not enough paintings, a lot of sketches and watercolors but the sculptures… fabulous. If we could combine Dali Universe in London with the Dali Museum in St Pete… now that would be a Dali museum! The kids enjoyed the trip more than I thought they would. Surrealism is always interesting and at the end of the musuem they have a gallery with Dalis (and Picassos and Chagalls) for sale. We all picked out one or six that we would like to buy. Ah to own a Dali.
I remember Big Ben from European Vacation, Look kids Big Ben. Every time we go around the rotary in town, I yell look kids Big Ben. Course only Rob and I laugh.