When David and I were first planning our trip to London, I commented that this is the first time we've gone to London without the need to purchase any antiques. His response was "well...there are those side tables in the living room...".
So, our trip to London would not be complete without a visit to The Furniture Caves. It's a collection of about 8 - 10 antique and reproduction stores where we've bought the armoir in the bedroom, a small dresser, a side board in the living room, and a secretary-like bookcase. They've treated us well.
Poor David leaving the Furniture Caves Empty Handed
Unfortunately, on this trip, we came up empty-handed. There just wasn't anything that spoke to us. However, we did visit someone that had some interesting things from India. He gave us a suggestion of where we might be able to find more India imports.
We took a bus into Chelsea and found the Indian place, but it was all ultra-modern merchandise. What's the point? We checked out anothe antiques market in the area and had a good time walking around Chelsea. We ended up walking into a no-man's-land looking for a lunch place. After many map consultations and a few "I have a good feeling there will be a lunch place down this street", we ended up at Harrod's. We went in and ordered lunch at one of their counters.
That afternoon, we took it easy again. We went back to the hotel, read, caught up on email, and napped.
That evening we went to see "Sunday in the Park with George". I've seen the version that was taped for PBS plenty of times and am a huge fan. This was the first time seeing it live. I enjoyed it immensely. David, on the other hand...not so much. He was a little bored and lost with it while I was having an apotheosis.
We didn't have much time on our last full day. I wanted to do just a little bit of shopping and David wanted to visit St. Paul's Cathedral. We decided that we could easily do both. I had found a store on the internet that sold Indian things and there was a music store that specialized in musicals and soundtracks that were near each other. We took the underground to close to the neighborhood, but left a lot of time for walking. It was a nice day for it.
