Fish n chips, that's all it is...

This could get me hurtt; fish n chips twice and so what. The oil was way too healthy tasting and the fries (chips) were too thick and not crisp enough. This fish is big, but tasteless. For dinner we ate at Kensington Place in Notting Hill. Katie had monk fish which Americans consider "poor man's lobster." I have never paid that much for lobster. Not even close. The fish was good. Little bit of steamed spinach on the side. Fish came with a "sauces," which was chopped tomato, basil and onions with a little olive oil. Very small, very expensive. Back to the fish and chips. A side of fancy tarter sauce. Don't mess with the tarter sauce, it doesn't need capers and pickles chopped to the atomic level.  I am sorry about the sarcasm.  It is all in fun and we had a great time.

Steak Tartar

Steak TT was good. Decent chopped steak with a touch of the tarter sauce described above. Beer was too American; not flat and room tempature. I really have to have the flat beer to feel I am in Britain. I think that's what the Brits are doing as well. Lots of un-British influence, but that's not a bad thing.

Tomorrow will feel more British. Still don't believe I am here yet, and the city feel is very familiar.

Katie has something new.

Not Kate, Katie.......

I know it's hard to see but it's there. Genuine 100% diamaunxds, sauxphires and white gouxld. We had to cut out some of the luxuries of this trip. Sizing alone cost a couple pounds. We weren't lucky enough to have a relative that had one lying around the palace. I am told there are only two of these in existence. The guy also gave me a free simulated plastic display box.

That was the end of the day. The beginning was good too.

We didn't eat breakfast, stopped in again this morning for coffee at Starbucks. They just have a handy on the go cup.  It's wierd ordering the Pike's Place Blend.

Took the Tube to Westminster Abbey. Wow. You see it from a mile away and it takes your breath away. You go inside and you stob breathing. It is beautiful, solumn, majestic, historically humbling. 3400 actual burials inside the church (royal peculiar), and many more memorial monuments.

Photography is prohibited, so I was only able to take about 100.

We are going to go running around Kensington Palace in the morning so I must go to bed. We are soooo tired. Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Today it is the official London residence of The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Kensington Palace is also used on an unofficial basis by Prince Harry, as well as his cousin Zara Phillips. Kind of like Walton's mountain of the UK and it is right down the street...

I will update all this stuff and add more photos tomorrow.

It was the official residence of Diana, Princess of Wales (from 1981 until her death in 1997), Princess Margaret (until her death in 2002) and Princess Alice (until her death in 2004).