London - Listo

Well ... today is our last full day in London - tommorrow we'll get up, have breakfast, catch a cab to the train station, catch the train to the airport and catch the plane back to the states ... M goes on to Mcallen and Reynosa and I'll be in Houston ...

Today, we slept til about 10 ... then we packed our bags so we would not have to do it late tonite or tomorrow ... We have a suitcase more going home than we had coming - there's a suprise ...



One of the people that Mario has been chatting with lately is from London - his name is Selim (like Celine but with a S and an M) - invited us to come out to Canary Wharf - which is like the new finiancial district of London for lunch. We did a bit of shopping around the wharf area first - it does not look at all like London - as it is all new - built in the last 10 years or so ... From there we walked to Zizzis for lunch - a quaint Italian place - and since the sun was shining brightly and the wind was not too bad, we opted to eat on the Piazza. The food was quite good - although the service was typically Bristish - slow and unamusing ...

After lunch, he invited us back to his place for tea. He lives just a few short blocks from there ... We had tea and panettonne - a sweet bread with raisins - and Schockoladen Lebkuchen from Feine Nurnberger - a ginger type cookie - both to die for ... Selim is Turkish - although he was born in Germany near Kologne and has lived in London for over 10 years.

From there, we headed back to OXFORD STREET to do some last minute shopping. We went to MARK & SPENCER - a department store that even has a grocery store in the basement ... We picked up a few more gifts and then we took a bicycle taxi down to Strand Street to see Evita. Mario of course is convinced that there is only one Evita - and that was a movie with Madonna ... But we both enjoyed the production and headed back to the room for me to do the final wrap up ...

Tomorrow, our flight is at 1:10 pm and I'll be in Houston around 5:30 ... No doubt, shortly after getting home - i'll be enjoying a shower that is large enough to bend over in ... I can't wait ... I need a vacation from my vacation ...

Until next time.

Oh, yeah - things we didn't do ...

Remember, remember the 5th of November

Take pictures at Trafalgar Square (although we did catch the bus there a few times)

See a play at the Globe (there weren't any playing while we were here)

and no doubt many other things as well ...