Beautiful London Day

Taking a break from working in my comfortable hotel room at Knightsbridge Hotel to post a few pics I took on the beautiful run I had in Hyde Park (one of these days, I'll go horseback riding through the park instead). When London is rainy or overcast, it's as though a dreary pall has set over the entire city. Some cities, like Paris, are perfectly fine, even slightly romantic, when it's rainy, but London is just gloomy. Yesterday was one of those glorious days in London though. The sun was out, the skies blue and the leaves were turning a golden shade. LS and EN made fun of my duck pictures, but I remarked that in Hong Kong, the only ducks I get to see are roasted. I passed by Serpentine Gallery, but wasn't tempted to go in because they are currently showing the same Matthew Barney exhibition that I saw at SF MoMA a little over a year ago. Speaking of exhibitions, I'm hoping I'll be able to squeeze some time to go check out the Turner Prize Retrospective at Tate Britain (until 6 January 2008), the First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army (until 6 April 2008) and Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan (until 21 October 2007), both at British Museum.




Had a great dinner at One-O-One last night. Instead of the usual starter, main, dessert dinner, I ended up ordering 4 small plates, two cold and two hot. All were excellent, but my favourite was the white sturgeon caviar served atop smoked Norwegian Arctic Char. LS loved the Tsarkaya oysters. A dark chocolate dessert, which was served with a salt caramel ice cream and bits of honeycomb, was just the perfect finish when combined with a huge single shot of Macallan. If it had been a Hong Kong serving, their single would be the equivalent of a quadruple; the waiters were very amused by my expression of shock.