London - a lazy day

Nice slow day with a bit of exploring of Croydon. The centre has a huge pedestrian mall which was used as a market - plenty of fruit/vegetables, fish, cooked food and clothes. Basically everything was £1. My shoes have all but given up, but still couldn’t bring myself to replace the old faithful pair, even for one pound. Lunch then back to the apartment. Walked back later to one of about 6 barbers, all within a 5 minute walk, and got basically a head-shave (Anne doesn’t think it’s a good look).

Barbers are normally pretty chatty; but nobody wants to talk about Brexit!!! It is all over the news, but no-one has any idea of what is going to happen. Luckily (I think) we’ll be back in Europe by October 31.

I thought once we got to England we could stop having to pay to use a public toilet. No such luck and the conversion rate in London is shocking - 30 P converts to one pee and no change given !!!!!Read more