Tuesday 5 August 2008

It’s typically London this week – cool and rainy. Yesterday’s forecast indicated rain all day, so we decided to have a slow day. There are a few local shops that I’ve been wanting to visit, but they are only open weekdays during business hours and difficult for me to manage.

One is a local cheese shop. I’ve never actually been into a cheese shop before, so I’m not sure what I was expecting. The shop was completely refrigerated (a bit like the posh wine shops), with shelves of cheese blocks and wheels. As we are not cheese experts, we just enjoyed browsing. The other shop is a little Italian storefront around the corner. Very small, but very cool. This was our favourite and we picked up a few things for dinner at home.

Yesterday we took the Big Red Bus tour of London. We spent most of the day touring on the top deck, however, we did have to hop off a few times due to rain. When the afternoon traffic slowed us down, we decided to stop at South Bank and take a nice walk along the Thames. We saw the London Eye up close and enjoyed a few of the street performers along the way. Ray met us for a beverage at a pub near the Shakespeare Globe and we happened upon one more to add to his list on the way to the tube.