- Wei Wei came at 5:45 am to take us to the airport.
- We had our breakfast in the SAS Gold Lounge.
- Flight was smooth. Circled in a holding pattern northwest of LHR
for 20 minutes.
- Landed on time. Wheelchair to take me through passport and
customs straight to a Black London Cab.
- At the Strand Palace
Hotel
, 372 Strand, at 10:15
am. Got our room, #130, straight-away.
- Kari unpacked - and on our way at 10:45 am.
- While Kari saw the Fashion & Textile
Museum
,
83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF, 11:00-11:30, I had a
smooth Guinness
across the street.
- Then a taxi to the Prospect of Whitby
,
57 Wapping Wall.
We had a reservation for 1 pm but was there at 12:00 noon
precise.
Lovely lunch: Steak & Kidney Pie, London Pride Ales,
all preceded by Hendrick's, respectively Tanqeray 10 G&Ts.
Great views of life on the Thames, flood rising, high tide.
- By 1:45 pm off in a taxi to
- Kari's Sunday afternoon at:
Kari ``window shopped'' and came back to the hotel at 5:30 pm.
- and my afternoon at
- Guardian Live: Kazuo Ishiguro
at the Royal Institution,
3-4:30 pm, 21 Albermarle St.
- I bought a copy of Kazuo Ishiguro's first book in a decade:
- The Burried Giant.
- 6:30 pm J. Sheekey Oyster
Bar
, 33-34 St.Martins Ct.
Wonderful
dinner: two G&Ts (Hendricks and Tanqueray), Oysters, Slip Sole
Belle, Steamed Spinach and a carafe of Chablis.
Dines Bjorner
2015-03-28