My top observations from my week in London.
- The weather was may better than I remember. I think we got extremely lucky as it was 70 - 80 and sunny our entire time there.
- Londoners still smoke way more than Kansas City folks do. Gross. I forgot what it was like to be standing at a cross walk and have someone puff smoke in your face.
- Pizza Express still has amazing dough balls and readily available voucher codes.
- My favorite Thai restaurant is good, but not as amazing as what I remember.
- Flapjacks are no longer available in the bakery section of Sainsburys. This could be because I looked at a Sainsburys at a train stations, but regardless is sad.
- My favorite salad, Super foods - Blueberry, mango, quinoa, similar to this, is no longer sold at M&S.
- Beet chips are no longer sold at Pret, again a very sad thing.
- Bob, the stuffed animal in the tree by our flat has apparently found a new home.
- The Waterway still has amazing, but overpriced Mojitos.
- It still takes twice as long to get your check as it should.
- The Warrington is just as enjoyable as what I remember.
It was great to go back for a week. There are many things that I miss and quite a few things that I don't miss. Perhaps someday we will get another experience to live outside of the US, but for now we'll just be tourists.
While we were there we did a few things that we did not do while living there. We did the state room tour at Buckingham palace. It was neat, but pretty consistent with other palaces - art work, rugs, fancy chandeliers, recorded tour that was a tad on the boring side. One thing I will give them credit for is that they have customized the tour around the Queens Jubilee. They had a lot of memorabilia from the Queen's inauguration.
We also took a day trip to Rye. It is a very old city near the sea.
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