Up too early so we lounged around, corrected the blog spelling and grammar, and got ready for the day.
Kelly is in charge of our travels today so I expect shopping at some point. Any point actually! :-)
We headed out of the hotel and quickly walked to the Lancaster Gate underground station. We picked up a day pass and jumped on the next eastbound train.... breakfast was on our minds so we got off at Oxford Street near Soho. The Breakfast Club was easily found on her google map and Kelly had us walking in no time.
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| All Souls Langham Place |
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I took a nice pic of the All Souls Langham Place (see above) and asked Kelly how far to the breakfast place. Turns out we are headed in the wrong direction so I have now taken over navigational duties going forward :-)
The lineup at the Breakfast Club was pretty long so we walked around a bit and found a nice little French place called the Cote Brasserie. It was just opening and the food was very good.
Next up was a short walk over to the Hunter wellie boot store for Kelly's retail therapy session. Boot & socks purchased and left in-store awaiting our return. Didn't want to pack them around you see.
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| Regent Street Pano... the bus was huge!! |
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| I could not find a name for this building... or the baby! |
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| The Athenaeum.. private club I am told! |
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| St James Park |
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| Big Ben |
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| As soon as the rain started this place was "hopping" |
Walked along the river and found a nice c-can that served IPA's called the Hop Locker! This was good timing as the under bridge location kept us dry during the rain squall that went through.
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| My kind of Street art! |
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| More Street art! |
Next we walked across the pedestrian bridge to Embankment Station and grabbed the black line to Camden.
We walked through the gauntlet of small booths that pretty much had duplicates of every sports jersey, t-shirt, silver jewelry and hats known to man. Once through the gauntlet, I high five'd Kelly as I survived the mental anguish and visual overload these shopping experiences bring me.
I think the population of London is around 8.6 million... they were all in Camden today. 😱
We did see the Camden locks... not quite the Panama but it was as close as I was getting. We walked the canal and enjoyed the views.
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| Camden Locks |
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| Camden Locks |
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| Canal action. |
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| Canal boat |
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| Not sure who it was named after? :-) |
Next up was a tube ride to Green Park and a search for afternoon tea. We quickly found a nice French restaurant "Cafe de Pierre" and ordered the afternoon tea for two special. Small tasty sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam complimented the English Breakfast tea.
FYI All the people in Camden came to Oxford Street via the tube... or so it seemed!
The next walk was to pick up some boots that Kelly had purchases earlier and then Marks & Spencer for some additional clothing. A quick tube ride and we dropped the parcels off at the hotel.
Our thirst badly needed quenching so we walked down the street a block to the local pub "Mitre" for a Pimms & Pint. This was followed by a fish & chip dinner then a quick shop for some snacks for the train ride to Glasgow tomorrow. Even though we used the tube quite a bit today we still managed to walk 26, 500 steps/18.4km, our feet are exhausted, as are we.
Travel day tomorrow to meet up with the band in Glasgow. Looking forward to seeing everyone!
