More London and Pizza

Another trip on the tube for us yesterday. Even though the tube has been running with startling efficiency, I'm still a bit over it now on the third day in a row and fourth time all up. God knows how people do this commute everyday.

We headed in for a bit of shopping on what will probably be out last trip to the capital on this trip. We got off at Knightsbridge as I had never been to Harrods before and I wanted to have a quick wander around it for the first time. It is a huge store and all the food looks delicious, everyone in there looked like a tourist shopping for the famous green Harrods bag.

From there we hopped back on the tube and went to Piccadily Circus and took a walk up Regent Street, Carnaby Street and Oxford Street. I have to say, our shopping day wasn't all that successful with only bras from Marks & Spencer the real purchases of the day!

It was a beautiful day in London, the sun was shining and Jo had her fix of Pret for the day. We took a walk around Leicester Square and headed into Covent Garden at about 5:15 as we were due to meet Jo's friend Patrick at 5:45. We met Patrick and headed on to find the Pizza Express we had arranged to meet people at. We strolled in, booked a table for 8pm and headed straight into Henry's across the street. Steven was the next to arrive, followed by Piers, Neil, Mark and Mike. We all had a few drinks and a good chat before Neil and Mark had to head and those remaining went for pizza.

Jo has been listening to me talk about Pizza Express 'Dough balls' now for a while and it seemed my enthusiasm caught on as nearly everyone ordered them for entree. I'm not sure why I get so excited over baked pizza dough with a bit of garlic butter but they are delicious! 'Sloppy Guiseppe' was also the most popular pizza (and it was good too!).

It was sad to say goodbye to Patrick, Piers and Steven as none of know when we might see each other again, but hopefully it won't be too long and we can all keep in touch in the mean time. We went for 1 more drink with Mike before heading back to West Ruislip.

On the tube back I called for a cab to pick us up at the tube station as it was too late to ask my Dad to play cabbie once again. I ordered one for 12:30 but due to aforementioned tube efficiency we got to West Ruislip at 12:15 so I called the taxi company as asked them if there was a cab available earlier then could they send one. The lady on the phone said she would sort something out for us. I was expecting to either wait until 12:30 or have a cab turn up a bit earlier, what I wasn't expecting was for the lady on the phone to come and pick us up herself as she had finished her shift and had no other cars available!! Our thanks to Fiona for the ride home, and even though she didn't even want to charge us we gave her a few bob to say thanks.