St. Paul's Harrods and home

On Monday morning I woke with some tummy issues. Got ready kind of slowly and wasn't up to my usual breakfast so wanted to go back to the Daylesford Farm store for tea and toast while T had scrambled eggs. Good excuse as any. We bought a few things for dinner and after dropping them at "home" made our way to the Tube and traveled to St Paul's Cathedral. St Paul's had a good audio guide and we enjoyed exploring the church. We got to the American Chapel but oddly there was nothing about it on the audioguide or if there was we could not find it on the menu. The chapel is dedicated to those Americans who gave their lives helping to defend Britain in WWII.  The pilot of Daddy's B-17 should be listed in the book of American dead which was open to the Hs this day. T thought St Paul's was one of the most impressive buildings he had ever seen. Left him wondering what Christopher Wren's IQ must have been.

As we sat under the dome a school class came through on a tour with a really good guide. The kids all sat on the floor while the guide spoke to them about the building and how it changed over history. He was very good at putting things at a level children could understand and could keep their interest.
 

Di has the all-time best umbrellasin the rain photo but I had to try

We visited the crypt where the gift shop and cafe are. We had a light lunch which was rather pleasant. If my system had been up for it we could have had tea in the cathedral restaurant. We got a peek at someone else's and the food on the tea stand looked very nice.

After this we took the Underground to Harrods for some final shopping. We needed one last gift and found it.  We looked over the Harrods logo shop, Christmas decorations and the food halls. The Christmas stuff was a bit disappointing but I could have bought a lot in the logo shop and food halls if we had room to bring stuff home. That's one drawback with carrying small suitcases. 

A trip back to the apartment, a little dinner followed by packng and we are ready to leave in the morning.  It's been a wonderful two weeks but we are looking forward to being home.

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