Our walk today ended up being completely spontaneous as it was just supposed to be a shopping day at Portobello Road market. We ended up doing A LOT more walking through other areas of London that we hadn't been to yet. Once again you were a complete trooper and played along with all of the photo shoots that we wanted to put you in. We even ended up meeting a friend and his wife for dinner before finally getting home late that night. Hopefully you had just as much fun today as we did. Enjoy!
Love,
Daddy
Once we finished shopping at Portobello Road, we had a good amount of time left in the day and decided that it was worth going up to St. Johns Wood. This is the area of London where the Beatles recorded almost 90% of their albums including their final album as a group and titled it ‘Abbey Road.’ This album became their best selling work and featured the now iconic image of the zebra crossing outside the studios on the front cover.
Abbey Road Studios below where the Beatles and many other recording artists/groups have produced records. There is even a website you can go to and watch people crossing the zebra walk in real time...right outside the front. I've attached it for easy reference. http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/
Once we were finished dodging cars around the crosswalk, we started back towards Regent's Park to meet up with my friend Lawson, and his wife. On the way back we ran into Lord's Cricket Ground, which is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone
Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the European Cricket Council (ECC) and, until August 2005, the International Cricket Council (ICC). Lord's is widely referred to as the "home of cricket" and is home to the world's oldest sporting museum.
The house below with the blue sign on the front was pretty funny. Kate always checks these blue signs all over London to see who lived there. I rarely pay attention unless it's someone really famous. While walking down past Lord's I looked over to the left and sure enough it was Maddam Tussaud's house. I almost won the blue sign award for the day until she found Sherlock Holmes' address from the novels written.
Once again, a random find that we didn't know was there. I knew that Baker Street was the important address in the Sherlock Holmes stories, but it didn't occur to me that we'd eventually run into it once turning onto Baker Street on the way to dinner. We had to stop and take some pictures.
I wish I could say that our walk ended here, but it took us a good amount of time to find a bar/restaurant that was large enough to accommodate your stroller and would actually let you in since it was after 7:30, which tends to be a cut off point at bars. It didn't help that it was raining outside at times either, which eliminated patio seating. In the end we came upon a great hotel restaurant that was very welcoming with amazing food.
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