The 5th of January a couple of weeks ago now was our first wedding anniversary. We decided to treat ourselves to a 2 night stay in a hotel in central London. We chose the Sherlock Holmes Plaza Hotel on Baker St. I arrived after work on Tuesday the 4th and we went to the hotel restaurant for dinner, after dinner we opened our presents. 1st anniversary is paper so I got Jackie a book, The Newlyweds Guide to Setting Up Home (I also got Jackie a Depression Glass buyers guidebook but it didn't arrive till well after our anniversary. Jackie got me a lovely print of Leeds Castle which is where I proposed, a very thoughtful gift.
Baker St Tube Station
On the morning of our anniversary I popped out and picked us up a coffee and some breakfast to have in bed before getting ready for the day. We headed for a walk around Regent's park and then headed in to town, we popped into a few shops, including several nice shops on Marleybone High Street, we were in good company with Emma Thompson buying something for her daughter while we were in the Designers Guild shop.
Lunch at a cafe off Carnaby St before heading to the Queens Theatre for the matinee Les Miserables. The show was great.
After the show it was back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We'd picked a nice Turkish restaurant, we ordered the set menu with a nice bottle of Chilean red to accompany.
That was our first anniversary in a nut shell.
Coincidentally while we were staying on Baker St we found out that Gerry Rafferty, who sung Baker St had died.
Also, in the past couple of weeks we've watched the relatively recent Sherlock Holmes movie and also watched the 3 episodes of a new BBC Sherlock Holmes series, all based around Baker St.
Whoar Emma Thompson.
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