We caught the train early in the morning from Basingstoke to Waterloo Station – just a 40 minute ride and we were in the heart of the city where
England swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycles, two by two
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben
The rosy red cheeks of the little children –Roger Miller
The last part was particularly true!
I have to say that it was so much fun taking Jeb and the kids into London, a place I have been many times. In fact, I spent part of a summer in London the year I met Jeb. It isn’t an overwhelming city as long as you figure out the metro and what you want to see. By now, we are quite museumed out so we chose just a thing or two to see like the wing in the National Gallery featuring the likes of Monet, Serat, Manet, and Van Gogh.
What else does one do in London? Go to the theater of course! How could we not see Monte Python’s Spamalot in the land of King Arthur and his Knights?
London was one of the places where I booked a hotel in advance since I knew it would be very late by the time we got out of the play. We did arrive late to the hotel. The power was out and they had forgotten to make the second and extra bed, which actually didn’t even exist. The nice lady who was working the counter couldn’t even find extra blankets – strange since it was a nice place. Politely, we demanded our money back the following morning (because of the bed situation, not the power outage) and they actually gave it all back. Wow! What did we do with an extra 60 pounds in our pockets? Go to the movies in Leicester Square, eat out, and shop at Harrods where we didn’t actually buy anything, but had a great time looking. Can you believe Levi didn’t even want to go in? “Do we have to shop?” It didn’t take more than an escalator ride and Harrods had him spellbound. He was the one that we had to pull away.
As I look back on our trip around the world I am reminded of all the incredibly delicious food we ate. I think about the 6 months that I didn’t have to cook!
After some discussion, we decided that if we could go around the world in just one day for the sake of our mouths this is where we’d go:
Breakfast – Feta pastry and coffee in Greece
Lunch – Picnic food from the Farmer’s Market in the south of France.
‘Fika’ – Coffee/Tea and pastry in Prague (even though it is a wonderful Swedish tradition.)
Dinner – Ying Yangs on the island of Koh Tao in Thailand – hands down best food on the trip.
Dessert – Garaway’s in Israel or the Sakakini’s in England.
Late Night Cap – Glass of wine in Italy.
There you have it! A party would definitely be taking place in our mouths that day. 
