Well we've been trying to get into Blogger this morning and it's been flashing enough to give the average person an epileptic fit! But it's OK! Technical glitch over!
We had a great day in London yesterday - we left the camera "at home" and went off acting like locals. And what do the locals do round here? They shop of course!
We took a Tube to Knightsbridge and messed around in H&M on the High Street of Kensington for quite some time. H&M is kind of like Sportsgirl, Just Jeans, Portmans and Jeans West all rolled into one, but with a strong hint of SES - that Chinese shop that sells t-shirts and stuff for $10. They had loads of nifty accessories which were on sale. I got a cool satin hat for 99p! And a shiny scarf plus a few other trinkets. Mark got a nice shirt. We left there feeling like happy little consumers!
Then we headed to Harrods and made a date with the Thierry Mugler counter - right after we went to Watersons book shop. Annoyingly, we found a really brilliant pocket guide to Barcelona, which we could have seriously done with last week! If you're heading to Europe, might I suggest you look for the AA Spiral Guides on cities, which include city maps and maps of the trains/Metro/Subway, which are extremely helpful.
Back at the Thierry Mugler counter, we had the girls getting out all and sundry for us to try. I bought my first bottle of Angel from Harrods 11 years ago, and I always point that out when ever I buy more Angel stuff. Why - I do not know! But yesterday, it opened a great yak session with the staff and by the time we left, we had a bevvy of extra little samples in our bags, which made us feel very well looked after!
We are on the wind down now in many ways. However, we are still to check out Buckingham Palace, and that's where we're heading today. We'll be viewing the State Rooms, which should be fun. On the whole Palaces tour topic - I haven't seen as much as I wanted to see, but you know what? Being a tourist is HARD WORK. You can't just go! go! go! and expect that you'll be alright. Sooner or later the feet give out and the brain goes into over load. And lord knows one palace starts to look like the next one. Same thing with Cathedrals.
On a sour note - we have heard from our real estate that they intend to open our apartment to the public for a viewing in our absence this Saturday. Can you believe that? No matter how outrageous we told them doing that was, they wouldn't back down. We feel utterly violated.
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