We get to London and See a few Sights
Mardi from Austin, and I from Portland, flights converging at Heathrow on a Thursday (10/16/2025), we met up without ado after customs and took a cab to our hotel. A walk over in front of Buckingham Palace, merry crowds milling about, mild weather. No royals in sight, the guard in non-ceremonial garb. We are white-haired ladies with a few points of pain, back, foot, baby toe to name a few, but we manage to hobble short distances and rest when we can. So tired we slept maybe 12 hours that first night. Friday Kathryn Mears met us for a walk through the National Portrait Gallery, (favorite portrait:- Toussaint L'Ouverture--painted I think 2009, the guinea hen hat a symbol of liberty as it cannot be tamed) We lunched with Kathrlyn at the Portrait Gallery Café -(by Richard Corrigan as renowned chef) very yummy and beautiful. We walked over to the Covent Garden area, and the highlight for me was smelling and getting sprayed by our young mother's eau de parfum, l'...