London

This was our fourth visit to London, although we hadn't been there since 1989. Our eight night stay in 1973 included airfare, hotel and theatre tickets for $269 per person. Theatre tickets alone cost us more this time around.

We stayed six nights at The Rembrandt, a boutique hotel in Knightsbridge. A five minute walk from the South Kensington station made it easy to get around on the Underground.

In addition to visiting the obligatory sites and museums, we saw two plays. From Here to Eternity, a musical version of the Oscar winning movie, was terrible. A sophomoric production with a bad script, bad music, bad acting, bad singing, and horrible choreography drove us from the theatre at intermission. We stayed the entire three hours of Chimerica; it was excellent. The inventive, well acted production should make its way to Broadway.

London offers a plethora of ethnic restaurants; we enjoyed excellent Indian fair at Punjab after our early theatre exit. But our non-theatre evenings were very British, by design.

	Medlar - Following a long day's journey into night, our first dinner in London was at Medlar. We were travel weary, but the one-star Michelin restaurant on Kings Road in Chelsea quickly energized us.
	The Harwood Arms - "The idea is to provide Londoners with a really relaxed venue for eating the finest British produce, cooked amazingly well, accompanied by excellent beer and wine at a great price. Please remember that even though we serve fabulous food, we are still a pub and there is a lively, friendly atmosphere."
	Rules - Rules was established by Thomas Rule in 1798; it's the oldest restaurant in London. Throughout its long history the tables of Rules have been crowded with writers, artists, lawyers, journalists and actors.

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