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Seconding Selfridges on Oxford street over Harrods.
Harrods doesn't have Agent Provocateur, either...
We travel to Reading/Aldermaston often for business. I love to take an early train/tube to regents park and walk to Soho on a Sunday morning. Catch the Maryleborne farmer's market and a snack at the nearby cheese shop (walkin cheese coolers!). Soho is a trip early in the morning, too. Surreal with the pubs, fancy shops and "adult stuff" mixed together.
Just wandering around is great, and cheap if you eat from the markets and grocery stores.
Milroys whisky shop in Soho is nice. Free tastes of lots of good stuff. You'll get better prices at the duty free at Gatwick though.
I think there's a museum of steam technology or some old industrial age stuff down near Kew Gardens. Never been there but that's on our short list.
Greenwich is great, so is Oxford. The NYT had a travel section on Oxford last sunday - you should be able to get it for free through this weekend.
Mike
'78 SC (planning next trip to the UK...)
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