Chez Gerard at Covent Garden

... perfect venue to dine with out of towners. Good steak and spectacular french fries. And who can go without the Valrhona petit pot, certainly not me!

The guests of honour this evening was Mum's best friend from school and her husband. It had been too many years since they had seen each other, with us living in Australia and then UK and they in South Africa. It was all about cooing over me ... 'oh look at her pretty hair and her long eye lashes'. Some things never change, do they?

The gradeur of the Opera House and the buzz of the Covent Garden market. On a balmy evening like this, it was priceless!