Ringers and Megan at the top of Portobello road
Beautiful fruit and vegetables in one of the Portobello stalls
Bratwurst time four, with mustard, grilled onions and sauerkraut
If you enlarge this photo you will see how genuinely pleased I am
The walk home along Westbourne Grove pastour favorite post-modern flower shop
In the afternoon, Stephen, Ann, Hank and Colette went to Kew Gardens and I went with the Ringers (Jeff, Amy, and Eliza) and Megan to St. Pancras/Kings Cross Stations and the British Library (Kris stayed in and did the wash). After that we walked down toward Bloomsbury and stopped at the Charles Dickens House. We didn't pay to go through it, we just walked back into the gift shop and saw half the house on the way in. We continued on to Russell Square and popped into the Hotel Russell, a fantastic Victorian building with extravagant terra-cotta decorations. Thence to the British Museum for Megan to have a a look at the new covered atrium. We kept on down Museum Street, which turns into Drury Lane, to Aldwich and Sommerset House. At that point Jeff and I broke off and the girls kept on trucking until everyone from all the various groups met at Wagamama for dinner.
Megan visits the phony Harry-Potter site - they must havegrown tired if people asking where platform 9 3/4 is and built
this nice little "platform" off in an out-of-the-way spot
The Russell Hotel, mentioned in the Heavy Side Layer from Cats
The fabulous covered courtyard at the British MuseumUnfortunately I didn't have my camera at dinner because I had drained the battery which is currently charging. With 220 volts, the battery recharges very quickly, but not quite quickly enough for tonights outing. After dinner we walked through Kensington Church Walk, which is a great little passageway leading to beautiful gardens and wonderful little shops and houses. It is always so fun to visit someplace new. We walked back toward home on beautiful Palace Gardens (millionaires row) which is romantically lit with gas lights. We finished off the evening with gelato at the shop near Queensway on Bayswater Road and then walked home down Queensway and along Moscow Road, dropping Stephen and Ann at the Bayswater station where they caught the Circle Line home to their flat. We now have to make the bed and get in it.
That's all for now. Church tomorrow, so there probably won't be anything unusual to post.
Good night all.
OXO
D.
5 comments:
As if the cauliflower and cabbage weren't enough, you had to show us the brat's. They look delicious. I look forward to being able to experience them. Maybe next time? Do you get to bring any of those wonderful veggies home to whip up a saturday evening bonanza?Where is Uncle Stephen, hiding behind the camera? Bad hair day?
The brats are seriously killing me. Maybe its because I've been working all night and finally just stopped and am realizing that it's 11pm and I haven't eaten since 1.
In any case, those brats look darned good.
Dickie your a wonder. So much done in a day and still the energy for a detailed post on it.
The vegetables are wonderful, the one drawback is that sometimes the stall owner chooses the fruit he puts in the bag and he does it very quickly without really checking them over carefully. That is the advantage of a super market -- I choose my own produce. Stephen was in some of the photos we took, but when I chose photos for the post, I clearly chose ones without him. It must be a Freudian slip, because I was not aware that I had done that.
D.
Colton, I guess I should add that there doesn't appear to be a bad piece of veg in the lot -- at least at that particular stall.
D.
Looks lovely. A party day after day. Too fun!
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