London: Day 6 (Sunday)

Day 6: London

 

Not only is it hard to tell the twins apart, now you can't tell where one is when she's in her crib

QOTD: Don’t forget to get a picture of the people eating outdoors

This guy is suffering from sun stupor (and too much bubbly)

Weather:  

Brit #1: one our local friends described the weather as sunny, brisk and uplifting

Brit #2: Fresh

Evening Standard: the Beast from the East, the nickname for bitterly cold air from Siberia, forecast to envelope the country and bring significant and disruptive snowfall

THB: tolerable in the sun, pretty cold in the shade, really cold in the shade with the wind in your face and scared to death our flight on Tuesday (at best) will need de-icing or be cancelled (better?) and we get to spend the night in the Hoof House!

THB gets a decent night’s sleep, and makes coffee and warms up Hot Cross Buns from Gail’s for breakfast. Buns excellent, coffee decent.

The artist explaining her work to the other three

The outfit of the week

Back to Collect with MB and DB, a short walk away on a bright and cold London morn. A bit easier to see the work as the crowd today is about half the size of opening night. No purchases the second time through either. THB is done a bit before the others, sits in the café nursing a decaf Americano, $4.50.

Brittany cider

Lunch at a brasserie, Cote, just around the corner from the Saatchi gallery. Lots of Collect people there as well.  Half-chicken (small, maybe half the size of the roast chicken at Harrods) with mushroom sauce and frites for THB, moules avec frites for DB, similar for DBl and MB; olives and a few slices of baguette, tea, lemonade, glass of red, bottle of cider, $55 per couple.

Rococo is the name of the store, so this is a house brand bar

MB and DBl head back to Collect, THB and DB back to the apartment, stopping along the way for an Ottolenghi brownie, milk and a couple of 70% chocolate bars (granddaughter Kate has gone home or we would have to hide the bars).

Lots of resting up in the afternoon and dinner of leftovers (in Brit-talk?): great Neal’s Yard cheeses, two types of country loaf toast, two types of olives, two types of chicken, 3 salads, griddled oat cakes with honey/jam/cheese/butter combo, red and white wine, and anything not finished (other than cheese and olives) is put in the bin as we’re dining out tomorrow and leaving the apartment Tuesday morning (Beast from the East willing).

Dessert of ginger cookies covered in chocolate. Somehow Kate missed these when she was visiting the apartment.