Journal

July 20, 2007- Friday
We started the morning with a hearty English breakfast. There were tasty bangers, enormous English Bacon, beans, and many other assorted heart clogging fares. The weather was overcasts and gloomy, yet since we've lived in the tropics and were constantly submitted to beautiful sunny skies, we were excited by the prospect of a thunder storm. Torrential rain with bits of thunder , flooded the hotel gutters and overwhelm the drainage system, knocked out electrical power for the afternoon. Most of western London, especially in Whales, had sever flood, roads were inaccessible, with houses submerged. Our driver Amir, had to spend the day rescuing his children.
We spent the day in our hotel room and after the fog of jet lag was cleared, we realized that our hotel was less to be desired. The room smelled like an old lady whom had smoked for ages and after a bout of emphysema, quite smoking. It kind of look like that too. Showers had to be taken standing sideways. It's long but very narrow. So if you were a thin, short, but wide you would feel most comfortable in our bathroom. The room itself is about 12x 18, making it hard to have two people walking side by side. Given the busy summer season, we were given twin beds, which forced us to be quite inventive in our honeymoon endeavours. Of course, I am embellishing a little, but needless to say we were underwhelm but our first European hotel.
But we are on vacation, nothing much bothers us, plus the staff are most accomadating and courteous.
The weather cleared, so we walked to Knightsbridge and visted Harrods. Since it was their once and only sale of the year, we were surrounded by masses of humanity, hurrying to get their chocolate covered nuts for 50.00 GBP or their 300 GBP underwear. Of course, the desire to splurge on undergarments did not hit us. However, we got to experience famous Spinx escalator and witnessed the memorial for Princess Diane and her boyfriend. We had an excellent lunch at a cafe across from Harrods and had an enjoyable walk back, passing the National Art Musemu with its most beautiful architetual building.
We were treated to a night out to a musical, courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Macinness. It was called Spamalot and we highly recommend anyone to go see it. It was highly entertaining and we laughed throughout the show. JW laughed so hard, he had tears in his eyes and I almost peed in my pant. Prior to the show, we walked to a bar next door and had a few pints, and experienced our first true English Guiness. We end the night with a light fare of Italian food.