We have just been to Oxford Street, we needed to order something from John Lewis, after seeing it first. Otherwise, online stores are so much easier. We used our OAP bus passes, all the way! Vow, free travel!

It is so completely changed, it look so different. You don't hear many people speaking English as you walk on the pavements. There are no decent places to eat, we ended up having a Pizza in the end! I used to go there a couple of times a week, with Kavey in a push-chair!! We lived around the corner, in Norfolk Square, near St. Mary's hospital. It was my regular haunt. You know, I didn't fancy going into any shops, may be just getting too old!

I thought I will share this non-food bit with you all :-).

How the World has changed, I still think back to all those local shops and the daily shopping trips (sometimes even per meal trips) for produce as you wanted it... Now they are few and far between and memories are all that are left...

Steve

I don't know many Londoners who like shopping at Oxford Street now so it's not surprising you didn't hear much English as a lot of those thronging the streets are tourists.

I think a lot of this is down to the rise of shopping malls... so much easier, especially when the weather is crap.

There are good places to eat, you should have asked me in advance, I could have given you some options for near JL.

Oh well!

We just wanted to go to John Lewis, you know after our (yours, mine and Pete's last visit to Brent Cross John Lewis), to look at some more stuff. Some stores are still pretty good there.

Pops wouldn't have gone to any fancy restaurants you frequent Kav! LOL!!

I avoid Oxford Street like the plague. I can manage Waitrose 'Food & Wine' (it has decent places for a snack) but otherwise shopping trips (unless solely for food!) fill me with horror - the crowds, pickpockets.... by midmorning I get very crabby and need a long coffee break (at least that is when the invasion of Starbucks suddenly seems a good thing.)

Makes you realise the lamentable lack of tradition for 'street food' in the UK - what do we have? Frankfurters or Ice Cream! Whether this is due to the weather, council by-laws or over zealous hygiene regulations it is such a shame. If I have ever stepped foot in a department store I would need something like a restorative bowl of chicken noodle soup.

Reminds me when young the treat on such expeditions was fish and chips in the canteen at Debenhams so perhaps that is why I have been scarred for life!

I wouldn't have sent you anywhere fancy, I know exactly what kind of place Pops would like!

Oh well, may be next time we go to London, we will remember to ask you :-)