Well we’ve been in London about 24 hours, yesterday we arrived around noon, then it took some time to get to our hotel. We took the express train to London from Heathrow which was fairly easy except for the walk to the train (long). We then decided to walk from there to our hotel, which was super nice – it’s about 70F and sunny – not too hot, nor too cold. We walked through Hyde Park, right by the last hotel I stayed at last time and then onto our hotel in Knightsbridge. We’re about 1/2 a mile from Harrods and in the fashion district. Who would know that we would be fashionable – me with my normal Boulder wear, Cindy with her camouflage t-shirt, and both with Hoka shoes on…

Last night we found an Indian place across the street that was very good, but we were pretty tired and sort of just mumbled to ourselves. Cindy was sitting there in her Melanzana shirt, a guy at the next table says “nice Meli” – of course he’s from Durango/Cortez area visiting… Colorado people are everywhere. Then two women sit down next two us discussing chatGPT and Claude.ai – pretty interesting to listen in…

Today, we have some work to do, but also got up, had breakfast and then walked to Buckingham palace and conveniently right when they were doing the changing of the guard. It was very funny to watch a lot of very short tourists attempting to get a glimpse of the guards marching in with a marching band, etc. I did manage to take a couple of photos of simply all the phones being stuck up into the air so a photo could be taken, but they couldn’t actually see. There was an elderly lady there who couldn’t see, so I backed out of my position on the rail and just moved her in so she could see. It’s funny how people crowd up to the front to see what’s happening, but then Cindy and I walked back across the street and you could see much better what was happening on the inside. The marching bands were playing modern music – which was fun to see.

We found ourselves walking back – went through Harrods – if you want fashion and expensive then this is the place to go – it’s like being in NYC for sure. While Rolex watches look nice I’m not so sure I could pull one off. The food in Harrod’s is amazing, saw some Wagu beef that’s $250/lb if you want to take it home. Lots of people in the chocolate section – not so many in the $1000 shoe section for sure.

When walking back last night in Hyde park there was a huge – largest I’ve ever seen – white swan – it literally is taller than the children. Seemed nice enough – folks were just feeding the birds – even though it says not to.