On Thursday we left Brussels’ Midi train station on the Eurorstar to head under the English Channel to London for the final four days of this trip.  It was a bit depressing zipping across the Belgian and French countrysides at 180 miles per hour, viewing the huge windmills and the many solar panels while reading an article about the political situation in the United States that has resulted in reduced funding for science and medical research.  Oh well, one of the costs of living in the greatest country in the world.

As previously reported on Facebook, we had dinner on Friday evening with our favorite Brits Gail Hammond Edwards, Jacquie Martinez and Robin Edwards at Patara on Beauchamp in Knightsbridge, a place we have now eaten over 15 times since 2010 and where they treat us like frequent dining locals even after a year’s absence.  In fact, we get treated better at this restaurant than ANY restaurant we frequent in Denver, one of which we have been to hundreds of times.  In addition to giving us a discount EVERY time we are there, they squeezed us in in our emergency of our original restaurant having to cancel on us due to a cut power line.

At Robin’s suggestion, we headed to the Borough Market on Saturday which is located in the London Bridge area of the city.  Great idea Robin.  Make us want to live here even more!  We inspected and we ate and we thought about how great it would be to have access to this breadth of food selections where we live.  Dream on.  I’ll let the foodie pictures show our day.