On my last day in London, mum and I went to see the 2007 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. Billed as the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting – it was a brilliant showing. There were about 60 paintings with four finalists having been chosen and although I didn’t agree with them all, my favorite was definitely amongst them. A quick dash in the rain and we found a huge Chinese restaurant for one of our favorites – a dim sum lunch. The food was good, the service was shocking and it seems that no one ever does the trolley thing anymore… I wonder if they still have them in Sydney??

Then it was goodbye. Kisses before I stepped onto the Eurostar, Pete dashing from Liverpool St – and I was heading home for a thai on the terrace of our favorite local.