{"id":11979,"date":"2019-10-27T21:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2019-11-05T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T21:08:23","slug":"daily_1758_-_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/10\/27\/daily_1758_-_london\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1758 &#8211; London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1758_London_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nAfter two late nights &#8211; one flying, one at the theatre &#8211; we were tired today. Ingrid slept late, and we took it easy during the day. More bus rides, less walking.<\/p>\n<p>We took a bus to town. alked around Covent Garden, watched some street performers, walked to Leicester Square and Chinatown, walked along Pall Mall to Buckingham Palace. Took a bus to Harrods, admired the food hall and the chocolates and cakes and teas, and the jewelry and handbags with silly prices.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the day was afternoon tea at Paul&#8217;s. Ingrid has recently taken up tea-drinking (mostly rooibos and spice tea) and a real, proper afternoon tea was a key item on her wish list. Paul&#8217;s is maybe more French than English, serving little brioche buns instead of sandwiches on their tea trays, but the whole thing did involve tea and multiple cakes and that&#8217;s what matters.<\/p>\n<p>By then it was evening and we took a bus back to the hotel and rested while watching Sherlock Holmes (the one with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1758_London_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1758_London_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1758_London_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two late nights &#8211; one flying, one at the theatre &#8211; we were tired today. Ingrid slept late, and we took it easy during the day. More bus rides, less walking. We took a bus to town. alked around Covent Garden, watched some street performers, walked to Leicester Square and Chinatown, walked along Pall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}