10/11/23

          We woke up and once again had a very nice buffet breakfast at the hotel. We then checked out of the hotel and drove on the London beltway to Golder's Green. We drove down the street checking out the kosher section of London ,getting a brief glimpse of paths not taken and where Wendy's family may have ended up. However they probably would not be Orthodox, so they may not be correct.
           We continue to drive down to Hempstead and I found a parking lot by the Heath. We had gotten used to pay and display but this one was different and you had to do it through the phone and  it took us about a half hour to 45 minutes to figure out how to charge to the parking lot We finally  figured it out and started walking around Hempstead. It was a fun neat little town. We walked around and saw all the old houses. I followed a path more or less through a good part of the town. We ate lunch at an outdoor cafe. We walked down  to Hampstead square to St Mary's Catholic Church and then up Holly Walk to the admirals house and then down to the Hampstead Quaker meeting House, and then back through Cannon place to Heath road to the parking lot .It was a very nice walk
           . The weather was near perfect as it was throughout most of this trip. It was perfect October weather .We picked a great time of year and  were just very lucky .Hardly any rain.. We're also lucky that the dollar was strong to the pound so the timing really worked out. 
          From there we drove to the car rental drop off which was by Camden. It was pretty easy dropping it off. We then took an Uber to the hotel We were staying at the indigo Kensington. We got there and checked in just as Jeff was checking in. He was exhausted from his flight.
          We were then taking to our room which was nice and spacious except it consisted of a layout that involve three to four steps to go to the bathroom  as I had visions of falling in the middle of the night. So we said we wanted a different room. They gave us another room that was not very satisfactory. It was small and not a lot of room to spread out. We went back to the desk to complain. The next day they said they would upgrade our room for $25 per night which we agreed to.
          That night we met Jeff and went to the Blackbird pub for dinner. I had a ham pie which was pretty good as they were out of steak and ale. We then went back to the room where basically we watched some TV . I was reading Cuba and went to bed around 10:30

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