A quick two day visit to the Capital. Some Harrod’s shopping and dining and a great one man show by Sir Ian McKellen. Then a great lunch with a Gretta and her wife Mary Ellen. I met Gretta in 1979 when she was my student at the University of Iowa in Freshman Rhetoric. I was a TA and she was the quintessential smart student from the East coast ..they now live in London. Lucky them. Tip; they took us to lunch at restaurant on top of the National Portrait Gallery. Great Sunday Roast and “gob smacking” view

Oh and nice hotel ..all those Marriott points paid off