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Out and about in Notting Hill, Covent Garden and Seven Dials. No sign of Hugh Grant though!

This morning we went for a walk to Notting Hill, mostly to see how Pauline was feeling because in the afternoon we had a guided tour called “the misfits of Covent Garden” scheduled and we wanted to be sure she’d be OK. Also it’s a nice area to look around.

Nice Volvo P1800 for sale just around the road from our hotel.
Unfortunately they want £40k for it!

In the afternoon we went on a guided tour. The tour company is partly owned by a kiwi and Pauline heard her on Jim Mora’s calling home program on RNZ. Interesting people.

https://rebeltours.co.uk/misfits-of-covent-garden

Covent Garden Christmas tree. It’s enormous.
Covent Garden market entrance.
Inside the market was definitely Christmassy.
This is St Paul’s church Covent Garden, also known as the Actor’s Church because it is surrounded by many theatres and it was the church of a lot of actors.
Someone was rehearsing the organ while we were here. Very nice too.
Quite a simple church inside, well it is C of E.
There are some memorials to some pretty famous actors inside the church.
Noël Coward and Charlie Chaplin for example!
Quite a few of the “Carry on” actors. The young American woman on our tour had no idea who they were of course.
Neal’s yard, seven dials. Monty Python had an animation production office here in the ’70s.
The streets are beautifully decorated around here.
Seven dials.

It was great to be out and about with Pauline again and we had an enjoyable day in London. I can certainly recommend the tour company https://rebeltours.co.uk

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    Janet

    Nice looking vintage volvo, not sure about the price tag though

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