Tuesday, July 24

We spent most of Monday, July 24th traveling back from Paris to London, and moved briefly to a VERY small room at Kensington West Motel. Too depressing to photograph or say much more about the motel. This area of London appears to be in urban renewal mode. There are entire blocks with scaffolding and workmen refurbishing the facades of buildings.

Tuesday we moved to our last hotel, the Avonmore Bed & Breakfast, pronounced Eye-vanmore by one cabbie we had. The room was significantly bigger and our innkeeper Margaret was very nice and accomodating. Interestingly most of the staff seemed to be Polish which lead to some amusing language misunderstandings that we'll describe later.

We dropped our bags in the new digs and headed to Harrod's to see the establishment that causes so much excitement. It does take up an entire block. We caught sight of it from our passing taxi the night we headed home from the Globe Theatre and it was lit up with more lights than a airport landing strip.





Room after room of clothes, purses, jewelry, chocolates & sweets, coffee & tea and then when you get to the food hall it's like part butcher, fish market, produce, bakery, lunch counter all rolled into one. They even had Krispy Kreme donuts! The displays are so astouding we didn't even take pictures -- just too touristy-strange to be standing in a department store taking photos.

We did order up a couple of pizzas and sat at one of the lunch counters. Here's a shot of their pizza chefs and the wonderful oven.



After lunch Michael was off to the British Library for more research while Grace & Angela were anxious to do some shopping.