Today is our final day of the trip. We fly home tomorrow and first thing on the agenda is the Covid test. We tested negative on the rapid tests I brought from home and now need to go pick up the ones we do with the video at a local testing facility. The location was about a mile so we decided to walk. It was a new direction for us so we saw a more residential part of Kensington. It did open up to businesses and we found a good bakery for breakfast. Wish we had found this area earlier since there wasn’t much food around our hotel. Anyway it took longer than we thought to find the place. Google maps is not always the most accurate. But asking direction finally got is where we needed to go and we headed back to hotel to take our tests.

The video tests were both easy and difficult. Something went wrong for both of ours but eventually we got it to work and were just waiting the confirmation from whoever was “watching” the videos. We got our negative certificates in 15 minutes so all was good.

The initial plan for the day was to go out to the Portobello antique market early in the morning. By the time we finished our tests it was around 10:30 so we got a later start than I hoped. The market was already crazy busy. The weather was beautiful and it looked like anybody that was going out that day decided to go to the market. This led to a disappointing shopping experience. Things were also over priced. We found much more reasonable items in the smaller town antique shops than we did at the market. However, I had always wanted to go to the Saturday market and now I have and I can check it off my list.

We walked through fairly quickly (as quickly as you can through throngs of people) and decided it was time for lunch. We did buy a few things. Having become obsessed with tea I bought a set of tea spoons with a cute little sugar cube tong. I looked at some jewelry but all overpriced. I expected to find some of the coin love charms but I did not see any. Oh well always next trip.

We had passed the Churchill Pub in the taxi (yes we took a taxi to the market since we were running behind) so we decided to try it for lunch. Sadly the Churchill pub serves Thai food. It was very British with flags hanging and flowers decorating the outside so not what I expected. We had a beer and a coke then off to find a better lunch option. We did pass the cutest cookie and sweets place called the Biscuiter. They make the cookies that were being sold at the palaces for the Jubilee. I bought some really cute chocolates and wish I had bought the cookies as well.

We did eventually find a pub and had our last meal of fish and chips for the trip. it was delicious.

We continued our walk back and did a little shopping. I found a new clothing store and bought a few dresses. I had been looking for the store we shopped at last time but there was only one in London and no where near things we were doing. This new one I saw in Bath but it was closed so very excited to find it on our walk back to the hotel. It looked like it was going to be expensive they even had a guard at the door but the dresses were under 100 pounds so not bad.

We shopped a bit more then decided to head back to the hotel to get ready for our theater night. We had tickets to see Mary Poppins that evening.

Mary Poppins seemed like an appropriate show to see in London. (Six, about Henry’s wives was sold out) It was at one of the smaller theaters so not a big elaborate place but nice and we had great seats. Since we were dressed up and not in our comfy shoes we decided to cab there. Not our best decision because traffic was terrible. It was like 3 miles and it took us about 40 minutes. We drove through Piccadilly Circle which was the big choke point. People were everywhere. We did make it on time so all was good.

The show was fabulous. Mary Poppins and Burt were really well cast and put on great performances. It is a lot of fun to be at the theater in London and I from now on I will always plan to see a show while I am there.

After the show we decided the crowd was to crazy to get a cab or Uber so we headed to the metro. Of course we walked away from Piccadilly Circle to avoid the crowds but sadly the metro on the map was under construction and not opened so we had to walk quite a ways to the next station. But we soon arrived back at our hotel and wrapped up our last night in London. Having our negative test for the flight tomorrow alleviated our anxiety and we were able to get a good nights sleep.