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| Wow, I can’t believe it’s only the second full day in London. This vacation has been going on forever. Ha! Having a great time. Today was the British Museum and, unexpectedly, the National Gallery. Did several hours of the museum then took a break to have afternoon tea at the restaurant on the top floor underneath the dome. The cream was fabulous, the tea wonderful, the sandwiches not so much, and the service horrible. All the wait staff were strapping, young lads from various countries across the European continent with nice healthy egos, and not so keen service skills. When they brought the tableware over, Tamara Georgick noticed that one of the cups was dirty, so she asked the waiter if he could replace it. Instead of just agreeing immediately no questions asked, he actually demanded to know why. After that, they pretty much ignored us, no glasses of water, no hot water refills, no would you like another glass of champagne inquiries, nada, and it certainly wasn’t because they were busy. I was starting to get a little demoralized by the poor service, who wants to be disregarded like that, but was considerably cheered up when Tamara Georgick started yelling at them. We spent several more hours tromping through the museum before they kicked us out for the night. Hadn’t planned on it, but I noticed buses going by on Shaftesbury Avenue headed towards Trafalgar Square, so we just hopped on the next one. We have week long travel cards, so all local public transport is already paid for, might as well take advantage of it. Saw Nelson’s Column in the waning light and all that fantastic architecture surrounding the city square. Noticed that the National Gallery was open late, until 8pm, so in we went. Had to be kicked out of there as well. Thought it would be fun to walk down Whitehall towards Westminster at night, all lit up, so that’s what we did. Needed to stop and refortify first, so we walked into a pub called the Old Shades. Had some tasty mini pies and ale, and were on our way again. Time to rest. |
  
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| No, no – this is all wrong, the hat is too small, or maybe our heads too big, must photoshop it. Stay tuned. |
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Tags: Afternoon Tea, British Museum, National Gallery, Tamara Georgick
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Nice pics all around of they entire trip thus far. And of course, they would be nowhere without this brilliant narration.
I am intrigued by the “mini pies” … they probably went well with the tiny horned hat. (!) Seriously, tell us more.