Christos spent the morning wandering Hyde Park enjoying the flowers to be suddenly interupted by a procession of the Household Cavalry (alas no Queen though)!
Such near royal excitement was then followed by a stroll along tony Piccadilly and Jermyn streets and an afternoon at the National Portrait Gallery (btw Dave, they do have a Caravaggio!) before meeting back up with Lisa at the Connaught shortly after 5pm.
Lisa had a wee nap to help recover from the previous night's excess and then we were off to dinner at the Brasserie Cavot nearby for dinner at 8PM. It was a day free from our usual London poison, the dark and frothy pints of ice cold Guinness.London, while not Paris, is certainly known for the quality of its international cuisine and what a delight dinner was! Christos had an excellent venison cassoulet (best venison he has had to date) while Lisa had a steak (she truly is a beef eater) and it was all washed down with a lovely bottle of Vacqueyras.
Tuesday saw rain in London (back to normal) during which Lisa had a couple meetings while Christos had a croque Monsieur at the Mount Street Bakery nearby and started reading "Millenium" by Tom Holand. In the afternoon it was off to Luton airport for our flight to Rome!
We arrived around 9pm and after dropping our bags at the hotel Gigli D'Oro it was time for a stroll through the piazza Navona, past the Pantheon and then back to a lovely restaurant near our hotel where we enjoyed vino and a lovely lasagna. We made it back to the hotel around 12:30am and drifted off to a good night's sleep.
One thing we have noticed is that Rome seems half empty compared to when we were here last year. I guess June is not yet full tourist season while July most certainly is.
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