London England - November 20-24

We added a few days in London after the cruise to visit with my brother Laurence and his wife Laura, and to go with them to a King Lear production in the West End. We stayed at the Ham Yard Hotel off Piccadilly and on Tuesday November 22, we met L&L for dinner at a lovely restaurant in Notting Hill, which I won't name due to what happened next. King Lear tickets were for the next evening, but by then I had a full case of food poisoning which lasted a painful 24 hours, so L&L had to go to the play by themselves. Next day I was better, and we went to see Sondheim’s Old Friends that evening, which was wonderful. Then later that night, it was Laura’s turn to come down with the same food poisoning and my turn to take on nurse duties. We ended up flying home to Austin a day late, to make sure we could both survive a 10 hour flight. Ugh! What a rotten end to a great trip.