Got out about ten today and went to Covent Garden. The area has a lot of trendy shops but also flea markets like this one.
Covent Garden is filled with street performers, including these jugglers who were just terrible (they kept dropping the pins)
and this women who sang opera and was terrific.
We stopped at the le Pain Quotidien at Covent Garden for a small bowl of tea for me....
And a large bowl of cappuccino for Ellen.
There is a comedy series on TV that just started last week called Twenty Twelve. It's about a group of incompetents who are in charge of putting on the 2012 Olympics in London. The first episode was about the countdown clock that was so confusing (but avant garde) that no one could figure it out. The show was very funny. But the next day, the real countdown clock was revealed on Trafalgar Square. Here is the one side saying that there are 531 days to the Opening Ceremony, which is wrong since the clock was started at 500 days.
And best of all, here is the other side. Click on this picture for a bigger version and you can see that this side says 498 days, which is correct. Life imitating art.
Then we walked over to Harrod's. the biggest store in the world, or it was at one time. There's probably a bigger one in Dubai or China right now.
Harrod's does everything first class, from the display of vegetables....
to the biggest easter egg I've ever see (costing 700 pounds)....
to this gorgeous display of the catch of the day. I thought it was beautiful, and I don't even like fish.
Leave it to Harrod's to have the most expensive souvenirs for the Royal Wedding, These china pieces started at 60 pounds.
Tomorrow Ellen and I are off to the country to see Stonehenge, Salisbury, Wells and perhaps Bath. I'm not taking my computer, so I'll be back on Sunday night or Monday morning with all the news.
Covent Garden is filled with street performers, including these jugglers who were just terrible (they kept dropping the pins)
and this women who sang opera and was terrific.
We stopped at the le Pain Quotidien at Covent Garden for a small bowl of tea for me....
And a large bowl of cappuccino for Ellen.
There is a comedy series on TV that just started last week called Twenty Twelve. It's about a group of incompetents who are in charge of putting on the 2012 Olympics in London. The first episode was about the countdown clock that was so confusing (but avant garde) that no one could figure it out. The show was very funny. But the next day, the real countdown clock was revealed on Trafalgar Square. Here is the one side saying that there are 531 days to the Opening Ceremony, which is wrong since the clock was started at 500 days. 
And best of all, here is the other side. Click on this picture for a bigger version and you can see that this side says 498 days, which is correct. Life imitating art.
Then we walked over to Harrod's. the biggest store in the world, or it was at one time. There's probably a bigger one in Dubai or China right now.
Harrod's does everything first class, from the display of vegetables....
to the biggest easter egg I've ever see (costing 700 pounds)....
to this gorgeous display of the catch of the day. I thought it was beautiful, and I don't even like fish.
Leave it to Harrod's to have the most expensive souvenirs for the Royal Wedding, These china pieces started at 60 pounds.
Tomorrow Ellen and I are off to the country to see Stonehenge, Salisbury, Wells and perhaps Bath. I'm not taking my computer, so I'll be back on Sunday night or Monday morning with all the news.
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