London served as our gateway in and out of Europe for this leg. We’d found a really cheap ($200 each) one-way non-stop from Gatwick to Oakland that we will take on December 4th. We’ll be house and dog-sitting in San Francisco until the end of December.
We’ve been chasing the sun for over a year though Madrid and Barcelona were certainly more autumn-like temperatures. London was cooler yet. And rainy. So we didn’t venture out too much over our long weekend here and don’t have any pictures to show for it.
We did get together for dinner with our friends Tom and Val that we met while on safari in Africa five years ago. We had fun catching up with them over delicious Indian food. We walked to and from dinner that night mostly along the Thames. We went to a pub near Chelsea’s home stadium, Stamford Bridge, and we enjoyed a couple of pints while we watched them beat neighboring Fulham. We saw Bohemian Rhapsody which seemed like an appropriate thing to do in London. I enjoyed the movie – I’ve liked Queen’s music for years – and there were some tears shed towards the end.