Toffed up to the nine's, we found the local train/tube station at Surrey Quays today, instead of ferrying in to London. We hopped off at Canary Wharf and Al and Kit made their way to The Gentry Barber. They had appointments for a wet shave and haircut. As Al went in first, the barber introduced himself as Sweeney Todd, to which Al, ever the gentleman, shook his hand and said "pleased to meet you, I'm Allan". Sweeney and his client chuckled and then relayed the story of Sweeney's clients disappearing underneath the barber shop into a tunnel and appearing as burgers in his partners butcher shop. Kit and Al both thoroughly enjoyed their treatment and were gleaming clean for the next two days!
Thereafter, we made our way to Top Hat and Tails in the Bank of England. Unfortunately, we were greeted by another doorman, much more politely this time. We did our banking and had the pleasure of Top Hat watching us depart and before I could stop myself, as we passed by him, I toffed my nose at him and said Good Day! True story!
The afternoon was spent lunching at the Prince of Wales in............Nottinghill. We went on a mission in the late afternoon/early evening to find the famous Travel Bookstore from the Nottinghill movie, with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. To our great excitement, we found it, only it's no longer a book store, but a shoe store. However, we were allowed to take photo's of the Nottinghill movie poster (to follow asap).
We had a quick march through the Portobello Market and tubed home for dinner.
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