On Monday, we only had dinner plans so it gave us the flexibility to wander around the city. We started out after breakfast in the covent garden neighborhood which is near our hotel. We went to our favorite tea shop and did some other shopping. After dropping packages at our hotel, we went back out via Underground to Harrods for more shopping. After Harrods, we walked through Hyde Park and had lunch at a cafe in the park We had really good chicken and chips (fries). From the park we walked to the opposite side to go to Marks & Spencer’s Sainsbury’s and Waitrose to explore the fancy grocery stores we had heard about but not visited before. In Sainsbury’s, we stopped at a restaurant inside that I believe is NYC inspired. They had corned beef & pastrami sandwiches but we just had tea and scones. They called the corned beef salted beef which we hadn’t heard of and they claimed it was NY famous but a quick google search told us it was corned beef by another name. After food shopping we took the tube back to the hotel to rest before dinner.
For Dinner we walked to J Sheekey’s we were told it had the best fish & chips from an author we follow. The restaurant was busy before all the west end shows started but calmed down significantly at 730. We had great food: oysters from Northern Ireland, roasted scallops and of course fish and chips. For dessert, we ordered a lemon tart with lemon ice cream and a scoop of chocolate ice cream. They also had take away chocolate truffles on the menu so we ordered those as well.
We were exhausted and it turned out we had walked over 9 miles yesterday. Today we are heading out in London again and there’s a tube strike so it should get interesting.
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