Today was a solo adventure. Took the train into London for a business meeting. Was a very easy commute, I can see the appeal large city dwellers have with public transportation. Coming from Phoenix we don't have that option. The business men on the train bust out the laptop as soon as they got on and got to work. Anyway finding the office I had to go to was a pain. Unlike places I've been that have numbers above each door I had to walk up and down the street till I found two numbers to figure out which direction to go. Then finally figuring that out I walked until I found the next number which was the one I was looking for. It was a small door between a Subway(as in subs) and some other small shop.
After the meeting I decided to head to a shopping area, saw a sign for Harrod's which i had heard of so off I went. Took the tube a couple stops, saw H&M and some other shops I see a lot in the US then finally made it to Harrod's. Large fancy doors, displays windows all decked out advertising the Great Gatsby. So room after room I see purses, okay there's gotta be cloths in here. Next I hit a room of pastries, almost bought some fudge, followed by almost buying petit fors, followed by wow check out those cup cakes. The displays almost got me. Well after making it out of the food section I saw a sign, egyptian escalators. Now a picture does these stairs no justice, fancies steps I've ever seen. From here I checked out all the floors, luckily the cloths were not my taste. for me they looked like older lady cloths but what was odd even the kids stuff had that look just less material. I saw one cute kids dress but it was 245 pounds, that almost $400, yikes.
Anyway enough shopping or browsing for me now I was off to the national archives. First off i had to find a tube to Kew Gardens. Oh but the fun with wandering without a real goal is if something catches your eye go for it. So i was passing Victoria and Albert museum, most museums in London are free curtesey of the lottery. (Hmm wonder were all our lottery funds go). Anyway nice thing about this was there was no line so I hopped in picked a corridors saw stain glass, robes, ivory things, Italian columns, kinda cool information then when I'd had enough out I went no worry about cramming everything in.
So back to getting to the national archives, I enjoy attempting to figure out my family tree so figured is be a good place to stop. Interesting yes useful unfortunately no. It's free access which is nice but I can pay a fee and do the same searches from the comfort of my home. Oh well, it was worth a shot.
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