London Through the Eyes Of An 11 Year Old--post 1

At departure from Portland, Oregon

July 23 through August 6, my 11 year old granddaughter, J, and I visited London, England where my daughter and youngest granddaughter live. The four of us also spent four days in Paris, France. This was J's first time to London and France. We took the usual photos before departing the Portland airport. It is a "thing" here, to photo one's shoes against the airport carpet before one leaves. We made sure to capture that moment!

Iconic shoe photo with the airport carpet

I'll be writing a series of posts describing the top six activities of J's trip. There is no particular order to the posts There may be several activities in a post. 

The cats at the cafe

This post will highlight having high tea at Whiskers and Cream which is a cat cafe. Admittance is by reservation only. The cats are rescues. Patrons can pet, play, photo and admire the cats during their reservation time. The cat no no rules were few. You can't feed the cats people food and you can't pick up the cats. You could order a drink, a drink and a dessert, a high tea or a meal. The time period for high tea was 90 minutes.

The cat, Jack

J LOVED watching, petting and photographing the various cats. She took more than 100 photos/videos of the cats. She snapped the majority of photos in this post.

Basil about to leap

There were cats on tables, on chairs, on scratching posts and in cat beds scattered about the cafe.

Basil in repose

The patrons were all busy with The food was definitely second fiddle to the cats as far as J was concerned! She has an intolerance to dairy. This cafe was able to make a tea that contained no dairy which was great.

Jack making himself available for seating too

We did see one cat try to join a group having a high tea. One of the employees walked over and picked him up before he could help himself to the treats!

The three tier tea tray part way through tea

Our tea consisted of sandwiches, scones and a variety of desserts.

J rated the experience a success

To get to this location, we took a bus,  two trains and walked about ten minutes. I was impressed that I was able to navigate there and even more impressed that I was able to navigate back to my daughter's house!

I'll be using my Sunday posts to document our trip. Goal number six on my August list was to begin documenting my trip.