London…?

I have sunburnt feet, a mosquito bite, and a steady diet of ice cream – I respectfully suggest that this is not London. My first two days have been spent trawling the sales in Oxford St for more heatwave-appropriate clothing, frying in the sun at a performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Globe, and getting comprehensively lost in Harrods – in my defence, they’ve moved some things around since I was last there. It is impossibly muggy at the moment, and the Tube is a steamy nightmare for all concerned, but it is still London, and it is still brilliant. To prove it, I am spending the morning in Regent’s Park, before a tour of the BBC Television Studios and a run down to Covent Garden to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in ‘Waiting for Godot’. That is, of course, after I have my ice cream breakfast.

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