London, April 8-17, 2023
Posted: May 17th, 2023 | Filed under: Out Of TownApril 8, 2023
We landed first thing in the morning flying in from NYC so the thing to do was stay up.
Novelty Automation in Holborn helped keep us engaged:
Then headed around the block to The Fryer’s Delight, wasting no time getting our fish and chips box ticked:
From there wandered down toward Westminster via the Strand:
And finally to Trafalgar Square:
And everyone stayed awake!
April 9, 2023
This being Sunday we had to visit Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park:
Walked around Kensington:
And then hit up The World’s End in Finsbury Park for Sunday Roast while watching Arsenal tie Liverpool:
April 10, 2023
A tour of Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea FC:
Nearby, the Harrods food hall:
And why stop with one Premier League stadium? Fron there we checked in with Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium:
April 11, 2023
Morning run along Regent’s Canal in Islington near where we stayed in Canonbury:
Later, passing by St Paul’s Cathedral on our way across the River Thames:
…on our way to the Tate Modern:
…toward Borough Market:
April 12, 2023
We and seeming every other tourist in London attended the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace:
…followed by a Full English Breakfast at Regency Cafe:
The checkerboard pattern of the Edwin Lutyens-designed Grosvenor Estate Social Housing on Page Street is really striking:
That evening, we saw The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe:
April 13, 2023
Piccadilly Circus for some shopping:
Nearby Chinatown:
Tea and Tattle in Bloomsbury before a visit to the British Museum:
April 14, 2023
Kew Gardens:
And Ted Lasso lives just down the road in Richmond:
…and his local:
Had to get back across town to see the strange and wonderful Viktor Wynd Museum:
April 15, 2023
A trip to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to catch a Premier League match:
A Hackney rainbow:
April 16, 2023
The Monument:
Sunday Roast at Blacklock City:
