Walking Around In Leicester Square, Mayfair, Grosvenor Square, Regent St.

Even on days with major destinations we do a fair amount of just walking around, sometimes exploring, sometimes just misinterpreting Google Maps. On July 30 we finished the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery earlier than expected and decided to just walk around the West End...

Shakespeare looks on, musing upon the difficult plague times
he faced, when ticket sales weren't going so well

And watching Harry at Quidditch

After a wet month in London, I now understand
the umbrella thing

At one of the Lego stores

Rachel note; after the cleaning, they'll have to
re-do it in cream-colored bricks

We prefer our Chinatowns in Asia

We probably won't do a play, due to COVID concerns, but this
would have been a prospect; as well as many others

Don't see many of these anymore

Oxford Circus

On Savile Row

Royal Academy of Arts

Nearby, of course

Neither our first nor last visit to Grosvenor Square

During the war, the Brits referred to Grosvenor Square, where
Eisenhower's HQ was (and the American Embassy) as 
Eisenhowerplatz; not entirely sure this was good-natured

More musical fame; somehow we have wandered into Westminster

Claridge's, I think

Yes, Claridge's; we thought about going in for drinks...

But didn't: unlike California, people here wear
more than t-shirt and jeans

Across the street: "There are no calories in kisses"

Moveable bachelorette party

We finished up at Hamley's toy store on Regent St. 

If not the world's oldest (1760) nor largest, then
certainly the most crowded; last time we were there
was 2013, with toddler Penelope...that was a challenge!