Hurrah we’re at Harrods

New friends, Constable Brown and Taylor

Beautiful

Silly

Action man

Kensington Palace

28,000 pound coat!

Happy football fans, who would have known?

Jane has been leading me on a wild good chase for the last few weeks and we have never actually made it to Harrods yet. Today the plan is to be different.

Now we explore the beautiful gardens, talk about Henry VIII hunting dear in the 1500’s and see where the swim leg is for the triathlon in the London Olympics.

Next stop is Princess Diana memorial, a bit weird, sort of a mini canyon in a never ending circle. Would have expected a poem or something on the side. After a while of playing around there it grows on you though, the water sounds nice and it has a serene feel to it. Harry practices walking around the edge and jumping the gaps for when he comes to Australia to do some canyons.

Still no sign of Harrods, will today be the day?

We head west and Kensington Palace comes into view. Its massive and a long way away, wish we had those hired bikes. Harrods must be near here somewhere? More photos shots of Kensington Palace and a spot of football along the way. We finally make it out of the park and are on a road with people, buildings and buses. We must be getting closer. With about 100 other people we wait at the bus stop I assume everyone must want to get to Harrods as well.

Our expert tour guide Jane, gets us on the right bus and we get closer to Harrods. At first Harry and I think she is taking us on a wild goose chase again. But finally Jane and Harry have knowing looks on their faces. It must be close. I have to guess. They told me it was as big as Buckingham Palace I see a building with lots of union jacks and viola we are here!

Nobody told me you need body amour to shop in Harrods. Its sale time and the place is packed I cant believe there is anything wrong with the UK economy.

We set off for the food halls, David Jones you have nothing on this. Every chocolate in the world is here and I want to try every one of them. There is a whole counter just for fudge. Harry uses the 16 page store guide to navigate around. We explore many floors and just happen to end up at the fur coats. A lovely man lets me try on a 28,000 pound fur coat. It feels exquisite.

We all leave Harrods with some famous green shopping bags but the day is not over yet. Time to travel to Mary and Jeff’s for yummy dinner, England v’s Italy and Suzie’s (Harry’s mum) story about the polo today.

Suzie works at Windsor Park, the Queen arrives driven by Prince Phillip, presented some trophies and then was asked in front of Suzie if she would like some afternoon tea. She responded very politely “No thank you, we have had a big week and we would like to go home”. What an understatement, the amount of work she does in a week is phenomenal.