I made plans to meet Luis, Leza, Michael and Lynn Saturday morning at the Buroughs Market for a day of site seeing. We rendezvoused there, had a cup of coffee, and began our tour of London.
Luis is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes, so we had to visit the Sherlock Holmes museum, which is actually not as kitschy as it sounds. It is located at 221B Baker Street, which was the address of Sherlock Holmes flat.
Right next door they have the restaurant owned by Mrs. Hudson (Sherlock Holmes' landlady. The museum is set up as a mock recreation of what his flat would have looked like, as well as a tribute to the different cases he solved. It is a great tribute to a fictional character that led to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being knighted by the queen. I can think of few literary characters that are as loved throughout the world as much as Sherlock Holmes.
After that we wandered back to the Baker Street tube staion, one of the first underground train stations on the planet as London's Metropolitan line was the first underground trainline. We took the tube over to Portobello Road, where there is a famous street market. It was featured in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It is a fun crazy antique market where, to quote the song from the film, "anything and everything a chap can unload is sold on the backstreets of Portobello Road". Tony and I will have to come back here. He'd love poking around the street and the stores.
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