London. Although a wonderful city, we don’t plan on doing too much since we want to rest and be fresh for when we arrive in South Africa. We (well, I) will likely sleep late. Steph will procure pastries for breakfast. Our hotel is just to the south-west of Hyde Park, to the east is Buckingham Palace. Hyde Park has the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain – which is wonderful, and the Royal Albert Hall – where Steph danced around a may-pole as a youngster. Really. Our one goal for today would be to go see the “Orphans” – in Marble Arch at the north-east corner of Hyde Park.
For dinner, we’ll find a local restaurant that we can walk to. We won’t dine at the Iraqi restaurant across the street. We did that a few years ago. I ordered the chef’s special chicken dish. I ended up with food poisoning, vomiting all night, while wondering if the hotel would let me stay another day, thinking that Steph would fly home for the dogs. Fortunately, I was able to get on our flight home.
"The memory of an elephant far exceeds that of man and their friendship spans a lifetime" - Dame Daphne Sheldrick. Original watercolor by Angela Sheldrick, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
I was not aware of The Orphans in London so have learned something interesting from your blog. The picture is lovely and brings to mind that huge bull elephant who got just a little to close to us when we were in Tanzania several years ago - we were on his ’patch’ though!