Sunday October 15

Today is Sunday and we got a later start. Instead of getting the hotel breakfast of yogurt, orange juice and a banana we decide to go a small restaurant, Apostrophe, down the block. We split a sandwhich made on pretzel bread and an apple streudel pastry. Sue had a latte coffee and I asked for some hot chocolate. Of course it was not ordinary hot chocolate, but thick creamy hot chocolate which I was told was Spanish style - it was good.

After breakfast we walked a couple of miles to a market near Liverpool called Spitalfields. It has just about everything and was very dense with stalls and people. The food there is unbelievable with quite a variety and all homemade. See the pictures for some of the pastries and also a neat picture of a guy from Italy who makes Italian baguette sandwhiches which are about a foot and half long. Also, should not forget the Montezuma Chocolate shop, a small but with a nice variety of top quality chocolate. Sue found a stall where a lady, Amanda Mansell, designs and makes custom jewelry. She has some very unique pieces and we may try to visit her studio on Tuesday.

Next stop is the British Museum. The building is gigantic and it is hard to imagine the priceless artifacts they have. We did get to see the Rosetta stone, Jewel Chess pieces, pieces of the Parthenon, Nereid monument and many others.

After the museum we set out to find a place to eat and decided to go to a pub called The Jack Horner where we had fish and chips and a beer (Sue had a honey type of lager and I had a Fuller special October amber ale). On the way to the pub we saw two examples of what you do not want to do if you drive in London (we definitely were not driving). A young fellow on a motor scooter, the type Justin calls a DUI motorcycle, parked in the wrong spot. He must of said something he should not have because in addition to getting his cycle impounded he was taken away in cuffs. Another person in a VW Golf type of car must have also parked in the wrong spot. We got to see the British way of towing a car that is in a tight parking spot. A tow truck pulls up, raising a crane like device over the car, drops down a bit and then secures the four 'legs' of the crane to the four corners of the car then picks it up and puts it on the truck then away it goes (see pictures).

Now back to the hotel and again a Starbucks near the hotel is closed - closes at 5:30; Sue notes all the coffee shops around us seem to close very early. On the weekday the Starbucks is only open until 8:30 PM. So instead she will have tea in the room.